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May 10, 2025
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Color swatch not in color picker

  • May 10, 2025
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How do you consistently get the color swatch color names to show up in the color picker?  I can get the box of all the shades of colors but rarely the drop down where you can choose a color by name such as "white" or "black" etc.

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Maybe because there are no swatches.

That can happen when you open an image file in Illustrator, an image does not contain swatches.

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Ton Frederiks
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May 10, 2025

Did you click on Color Swatches in the Color Picker?

bobkap48Author
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May 10, 2025

That's the problem.  That option does not show up except intermittently.  Please see attached screenshot.

Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 10, 2025

Maybe because there are no swatches.

That can happen when you open an image file in Illustrator, an image does not contain swatches.