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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Spazmelda on March 03, 2019, 11:39:28 AM

Title: Any way to save color swatches?
Post by: Spazmelda on March 03, 2019, 11:39:28 AM

Is there any way to save a color swatch profile that I have made for a document?

I found a way online to write a file where I specify each color profile, but just wondering if there is an easier way.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Any way to save color swatches?
Post by: brynn on March 03, 2019, 12:03:36 PM

Welcome to the forum!

There are 2 different ways to create a custom palette for Inkscape.  The Swatches feature is per document, so that the swatches you make in a document only exist in that doc.

The other way is to create a GPL file (Inkscape uses GIMP palette file format).  Here's a tutorial for that:  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ureva7n4uyue6e6/Gimp_Palette_Howto_V0_2.pdf

However, if it's just a custom color that you need, you can create a custom color using Object menu > Fill and Stroke.  That doesn't make a palette chip or a swatch or anything.  It's just a custom color, and you'd have to remember the values which create it, depending which tab you use in Fill and  Stroke dialog.  Or you could use the Dropper tool to move it from one doc to another.

Title: Re: Any way to save color swatches?
Post by: Moini on March 04, 2019, 01:07:31 PM

There's the third method of saving the swatches in a custom template, too.

Title: Re: Any way to save color swatches?
Post by: brynn on March 05, 2019, 07:41:44 PM

Oh, I didn't think of that.  I suppose custom templates make Swatches not strictly per document.