Recent Color Swatch Used Keybind
In short, a recent color swatch keybind would increase efficiency during creating projects. Currently I am working on a project where I have to use the same colors repeatedly. If there was a keybind to automatically change the color to the most recently used color it would be nice.
Ex. You have to type out a text on a card and you want to change the color of certain words quickly without having to go into the swatches board and having to highlight.
Instead of that you could:
Use a color once
Highlight the new uncolored text
Do a keybind (ex. ctrl+shift+x)
It changes the color of your text to the most recently used color swatch.
Kayden Floyd
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This can be achieved with Actions panel. It allows to record certain operations and assign F-key-based shortcuts to call them later faster.
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No worries, glad it helped. Actions is a the second stage of automation in Ai. It won’t solve all the tasks we can have, but it’s definitely helpful.
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Kayden Floyd
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Thank you! It worked, it took me a minute to get it but, I got it! Thanks so much!
Ps. I wouldn't have commented if I knew that there was an action panel.
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I see the reason why you want it (clicking a color in Swatches is indeed slow), but I personally feel the request is way too specific to have a native dedicated command... but we can use Actions to make it faster, almost the way you want!
1. Open Actions panel, create a new set (folder) — if needed, — then a new action. In the New Action dialog pick a Function Key you want to use (these are limited to F-keys only).
2. Make sure you have fill active (not stroke), select any word in text and click a swatch in Swatches
3. Stop recording the action
Now select an other word and press the previously chosen hotkey.
So it won’t be specifically 'the previously used color', but a predefined one. If I had many colors to apply, I’d create several actions and attach more F-keys.
Remember that actions sets can be disabled and enabled back when needed, so hotkey conflicts won’t happen.Please comment back if the method works for you (or not).