The Prince Of Swords

So a few months ago I was trying to move some color palettes between Inkscape and Color Schemer Studio Pro, both of which I still use. Recently our company colors shifted an RGB value from 204 to 196, which to most may not be noticeable. But, since I created a color space for all our webs apps based on that value, I can’t NOT touch up all my colors.

While playing with colors again, I found a simple solution to sync palettes across all my Mac apps. Turns out the Mac Color Picker likes to use “.clr” files that I still have not figured out how to generate.

But, I never looked very closely at all the tabs in the color picker - Color Wheel - Color Sliders - Color Palettes - Image Palettes - Crayons… did you miss it?

Image Palettes! Yep, create an image of swatches in your palette and the Color Picker will let you use it. Using Color Schemer Studio, you can easily export your palette as a .gif.

A copy of the image you use will be stored in ~/Library/Colors/.

I include a palette in all our web projects just in case a developer ever wants to know what our colors are.

Purple is a color.
Violet is a spectrum of light.