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Why did Adobe Color change?

Forum|Forum|22 days ago
May 9, 2026
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Reposting this from my CC Desktop feature request. Please vote if you feel the same!

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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MilenaJackson

Participant

“Other websites had me manually copy/paste hex codes, which was extremely annoying. With the new update, it is no longer possible to upload an image and drag my color choices around to see what works and doesn’t. I have looked for other websites and they are not as good as what Adobe Color Contrast Checker had.” yes this user said exactly what I was thinking!

CClark968

Participant

I’m begging Adobe to bring back Adobe Color!!!

ndobiecka

Participant

The changes are terrible! Poor functionality, difficult to undersand how to use it to create a colour scheme. The individual colours seem to be completely independent of the scheme - so switching to a tint then looking to try another tint of the original is wrecked because now the tints are of the newly selected tint and not the original colour.

Create from image has no way to actually apply the colours you pick on the image to the colours in the scheme.

Setting a base colour is awkward - it’s in a different panel to the colour wheel - so you can’t just pick the item in the set of colours you’re working with.

I can’t see why any of these changes came about - they break the workflows of many and make a basic tool that worked very well into something extremely frustrating and limited.

Montague202

Participant

Pleeeease bring back the old color wheel and color library page. I just found it, loved using it, and now it feels awkward and restricting. I like being able to add more colors, but the old site(s) were better.

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Oh.N8

In many ways I prefer the previous version.

mariah_expresso

Community Manager

We’d love to hear more about this! Sending you a message now to learn more.

Ace@Parks

Participant

I am in agreement as a graphic designer with 7 years of experience. The ability to upload my finished piece to check for contrast by choosing the exact placement of the background color and text color saved immense time for me. Other websites had me manually copy/paste hex codes, which was extremely annoying. With the new update, it is no longer possible to upload an image and drag my color choices around to see what works and doesn’t. I have looked for other websites and they are not as good as what Adobe Color Contrast Checker had.

Many other designers are in the same boat with their frustrations with the new update. I hope Adobe is willing to reconsider this new confusing and very hard to understand interface. Don’t change it if it ain’t broken!

mariah_expresso

Community Manager

Hi! The team is really interested to learn more about this. Hopefully you’re willing to connect—reaching out in a message to learn more!

atsand21

Participant

(profanity removed by moderator) my color library is gone!

mariah_expresso

Community Manager

Users maintain the ability to access their libraries through any of the CC apps, in Creative Cloud Deskop, or here https://www.adobe.com/files/libraries

We are exploring an update to Libraries now and would love the chance to connect about any feedback you have.

mariah_expresso

Community Manager

Hi! Thank you for the feedback—we are working on addressing this feedback now. I will reach out in a message with more info!

jane-e

Community Expert

@allenzuk

Did you try this site?

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

Jane

allenzukAuthor

Participant

Yeah, that’s actually the site I’m referring to that I’d like to see rolled back to the previous version. I used to be able to click on one of my color palettes in the Library and fine-tune - add or remove colors and iterate on it, etc. Now I struggle to even find my color palettes, and when I open one I get just the palette with no editing capability. You can’t take an old palette and do things with it.

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