
Palettes are stored in the GPL file format (GIMP palettes): they are simple text-based lists of (decimal) RGB values which can be edited in a plain-text editor.
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You can also copy GIMP palettes (if you have GIMP installed), or download GPL files from the web, and save them in the 'palettes' folder of your inkscape user profile (see below). The same is also possible in the 'View > Swatches' dialog, which can be used to view a secondary palette, independently from the one shown below the canvas area. The color palettes are loaded from two locations on disk when inkscape is launched and can be selected in the color palette by clicking on the small triangle on its far right end (it will pop up a list of all currently installed color palettes). (Shift-click to assign the picked-up color to the stroke instead of the fill)Ĥ) by pressing the bar you can now quickly toggle between the select and dropper tool if you want to color several objects with shades from the colorscheme. Within the document, you can reuse the colors of the imported/pasted color scheme with the dropper tool:ġ) Select the object you want to assign a color toĢ) Switch to the Dropper tool (keyboard shortcut: 'd')ģ) Click on a colored area of the pasted/imported group This group of objects can then be copy&pasted into a new document (or - if saved as individual SVG file - imported with 'File > Import…' or Drag&Drop from the file manager, or added to a custom template (see below)). a row or column of rectangles, grouped with 'Ctrl+G'). The "cheapest" method to share a set of colors (color scheme) between different documents is to create a group of small objects with the custom color scheme (e.g.
