Hi this isn't a real bad problem its just a tiny little problem.I know how to make my own color pallette. I just make a drawing with the colors I want, and then save as a gpl file, and copy it to C:>program files>inkscape>share>pallettes. But thats not my problem. My problem is I can't rename my colors. I know it doesn't really matter what a color is renamed. I just want to do it for fun. Say I want to call a color tangerine. But it ends up called #ffc300 when I hover my mouse over the color. So I was wondering if anyone knew how to rename a color in a color pallette.

Hi.

This is easy.

Find your palette.gpl file, rightclick the file and choose "open with"- select
your favorite text editor, you can use notepad on a windows system.

You will then see something similar to this in your palette file:



The text in the fourth column are the text that will be shown on "mouseover".
You can edit this text to your whatever you like.
The number after the hash sign "#" at the end of the line is the hexadecimal representation of the RGB components of the color
where the "intensity" of the color is in range 0 to 255 or 00 to FF in hexadecimal.
255 is the highest number that can be represented by eight bit (one byte). To get the RGB value you need 24 bits.

. Great!

Thanks! So you're saying open the file with notepad? I didn't even know notepad could open those files.

Hi.

Yes - just use notepad. The gpl file is a "pure" text file - decoded by Inkscape (or GIMP) to give you a palette.
I have made several python programs to generate nice palettes.

Search the forum for "palette" to find a few of the generated palettes.

Like this one: viewtopic.php?t=14045#p57226

Cool! I'll. Start editing my pallette right now. Thanks by the way.

If you copy it to C:>program files>inkscape>share>pallettes, it will be lost the next time you upgrade Inkscape. Instead, put it in username/AppData/Roaming/Inkscape/palettes. Then it will be available for all versions of Inkscape.

Somewhere in this forum, someone offered a palette made of Crayola Crayon colors. I would guess it names the colors.

Cool! One more thing. I wish I could arrange the colors in not alphabetical, but rainbow order. So everything can be more organized