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asidall
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May 22, 2023
Question

Color values exported from Illustrator file

  • May 22, 2023
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I would like a button on the swatches panel to EXPORT all color values as text. I would like it formatted this way:

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GROUPNAME

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Name

HEX xxxxxx

RGB x-x-x

CMYK x-x-x-x

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Example Name

HEX f05158

RGB 240-81-88

CMYK 0-84-61-0

 

It is important that it include all solid colors, even those that are Global colors, either spot or process. 
Illustrator makes it ridiculously tedious to manually copy all of this information down for brand guides, and I am usually doing this for around 12 colors for each brand.

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Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2023

Your idea sounds like a decent feature request. Someone with better scripting knowledge than me might be able to handle that text formatting thing. There is a quick and dirty approach where you can copy objects with desired fill colors to the clipboard and then paste the data into a plain text application, such as the Notepad app in Windows. Notepad would see SVG text data on the clipboard and be able to paste it as plain text. The text would show the hexidecimal values of the fills. The downside is it only shows HEX values of fills; any Pantone or CMYK fills get converted to HEX data. This doesn't do everything you need, but it at least can take care of having to manually write down a bunch of HEX values.

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asidallAuthor
Participant
May 22, 2023

Also, please include the library name, such as PMS XXXX if it is from a standard Pantone or other type of color library.

 

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