Color swatch variables
Add color and pattern swatches as options in variables pallet.
Jonathan
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Ryan commented
This would be genius. I have a workflow that would benefit from this greatly. Currently, creating swatches and then exporting as images to link as a variable to create masked objects with different colors. Swatches associated to variables would be so much easier and allow greater flexibility.
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Jessica
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This would be very helpful. Here is my workflow:
I create customizable prints that can include different patterns based on a customer's selection at purchase. Each product SKU has a corresponding patterns and custom colors in my AI template. I currently have to select each pattern and apply it manually. It would be great if I could automate this step in production by dynamically adding the pattern to the artboard based on the configurations from my CSV file.
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Jonatan, can you elaborate on a workflow you want to achieve with that?
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Ben
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Option 2! It's wild the things I'm still learning about this program. Thanks, Egor!
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Ben, by multiple places you mean different documents or different pieces of a single artwork?
If 1 — use Libraries, I guess. If 2 —just tick Global when creating a swatch. -
Ben
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It would be awesome to link colors used in multiple places to a parent color swatch. When wanting to change every instance of a specific hex value you could make the change once and have them all update (similar feature in InDesign, I believe?)
