Bring back the original Adobe Color

Forum|Forum|23 days ago
May 8, 2026
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In the past few days, Adobe Color (formerly Kuler) at color.adobe.com has disappeared and been replaced with something that lacks the flexibility and usefulness of the previous interface. I’m hereby begging you to bring the previous interface back, in its entirety.

I’ve been a paying subscriber to Adobe CC and an instructor of Adobe CC apps for many years, and while I haven’t been happy with the recent price increases, my overall satisfaction with the service and the useful generative AI features in Photoshop have been enough to offset the pain of paying more every month. However, Adobe Color was one of the most useful creative tools of its kind available anywhere, and the fact that it integrated with all my apps was a huge bonus. Why on earth would I want to be forced into Adobe Express while I’m trying to fine-tune and experiment with a complex color scheme? I’m really struggling to understand the purpose of this downgrade.

There are many other users with similar sentiments: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/comments/1t5heav/adobe_color_redesign/

Please bring back Adobe Color, now! This change is killing my productivity.

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jane-e

Community Expert

This duplicate thread is now locked. Please add to the newer thread Allen posted in the Adobe Color forum so that all comments are in one place.

https://community.adobe.com/questions-194/why-did-adobe-color-change-1560898?postid=1560898#post1560898

Jane

The_Real_Simmer

Participant

I agree! I logged in today to check if my color palette is accessible to people with color blindness, only to find out I can't check my older palettes anymore?? Only newly created ones?? Very annoying.

ndobiecka

Participant

I agree completely! I hate the changes to it so much. It’s incredibly unfriendly and some changes even make it impossible to actually create a colour theme.

I can understand they want to evolve the product but the changes are awful - for example, why change the tint function to tints of a new tint!

Vania_Arthur1724

Participant

Thanks for sharing this because I absolutely agree!! I thought I was going crazy when I finally logged in. I truly don’t like it at all!

TuqaRammahi

Participant

I’m really shcoked of what happend, very bad UX for me, and UI as well, I’m really unable to function using it ><

Tuqa Rammahi

jane-e

Community Expert

@allenzuk

See this post from Adobe Staff for alternatives.

https://community.adobe.com/questions-194/end-of-support-for-adobe-color-themes-panel-294955

Support for Adobe Color ended five years ago in 2021 and Adobe is unlikely to bring it back.

Jane

allenzukAuthor

Participant

Hi Jane - I do remember when the color panel was discontinued, but the Adobe Color functionality was still at color.adobe.com and I was using it only a few days ago. The main issue for me is that you can no longer click on a previously created palette and edit it, or create a new one out of it.