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Darkerkat
Darkerkat
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November 27, 2019
Question

Maintaining Swatch Names From CC Libraries

  • November 27, 2019
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I'm trying to get into the habbit of using swatches and CC libraries to help with workflow across all our design employees but I am running into an issue. For one specific file type we make my company uses different color blocks to mark and count sign types. This means I have about 80 color swatches that I am trying to keep consistent over differnt designers. I've takent the time to go through name and oraganize these all into spot colors and catagrories so they stay consistent and maintain the lable I gave them. I then added them to one of my CC libraries with the hopes of being able to share this library link so everyone could use the same swatches. The issue I am running into is when I am then trying to pull all of these colors into my swatches panel. I can add them one at a time (by drawing a box, applying the color and then sorting them back inot color groups) but if I try to add them all at once by clicking the add to swatches library from the libraries panel it keeps them as spot colors but removes all of the swatch names. 

Here's my question - is there a way to pull these all into a new file without losing the names from CC libraries or am I better off saving my colors as an ASE file and just giving the other designers access to that? 

    2 replies

    Myra Ferguson
    Community Expert
    Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 27, 2019

    In addition to Ton's idea or saving an ASE file, you could set up your swatches in a template file that you save to your Creative Cloud folder and share with your team.

      btrhodessf
      btrhodessf
      Participant
      September 17, 2021

      The problem I have with this is the NAME field of the color in CC Lib does not come through as the NAME of the color swatch in the Swatch palette... it always reverts to the RGB alpha numeric breakdown.

      For folks who rely on the name of a color vs. the mathmetical equivalents, this is a huge issue when dealing with sophisticated palettes

      any solutions or suggestions to offer?

        Ton Frederiks
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        Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 27, 2019

        Spot colors and CC libraries are a little problematic.

        The best you can do is to add multiple objects filled with the swatch colors you want together at a library.

        In a new document you can drag them, while holding down the Alt key, to your artboard (or choose Place Copy from the Library menu).

        This will add the swatches to your Swatch panel (and you can delete the dragged object).

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