Color window
Windows > Color Palette
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The Color window is a place to create and and manage two types of color palettes:
To add a swatch, drag the color swatch from the Color Widget above into the Library Palette.
To add swatch colors to Shapes:
With a Fill or Stroke Color attribute selected on a Shape, click a swatch.
Options menu:
New Palette... - create a new palette.
Library - select the library of palettes to load into the Library Palette drop down menu.
Import... - import an existing palette.
Save As... - save a version of the palette.
Rename Palette... - rename the palette.
Reveal in Finder/Explorer... - reveal the palette within your file system.
Color swatches in the Scene Palette are nodes and therefore can be used to create shared connections between shapes. They are also saved with your scene.
A Scene Palette swatch is really useful when you have several Shapes that share the same color. Any change to the swatch will also update any connected Shapes meaning you only have to change it once.
Drag a swatch directly onto a Shape in the .
Drag swatches from the palette onto the Fill or Stroke Color attribute in the on a Shape (Fill or Stroke tab).
You can also manually create your own Library Palettes
Set Gradient from Palette - set the color stops for a Gradient attribute selected in the .
Create Array from Palette. - create a pre-populated with the colors in the palette.
Cavalry supports importing and .ase (Adobe® Swatch Exchange) filetypes.
Rollover a swatch and use the Connector (the connection anchor will appear on rollover) to create a to any Element that has a Color attribute.