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Marek38131956z847
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July 23, 2025
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Please add keyboard shortcut to open color pallete/ swatches window at my cursor

  • July 23, 2025
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When I'm coloring my designs, it would be great to have shortcut to quickly choose color from my swatches.

When you click shorcut and swatches window will show so i don't have to click to the side to select it on my own.

Would save a lot of time!!!

 

Please consider!!!

Thanks

1 reply

Abhishek Rao
Community Manager
Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 23, 2025

Hi @Marek38131956z847,

 

Thanks so much for sharing your idea. I can totally understand how having a shortcut to open the Swatches panel right at your cursor would speed things up, especially when you're deep in coloring work.

While Illustrator doesn't currently support this exact feature, you can still assign a custom shortcut to open the Swatches panel using the Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts menu. It won’t appear at the cursor for now, but it can still help reduce clicks.

Since this is a great suggestion, would you mind posting it on our UserVoice page here: https://adobe.ly/4lI7hlC? That way, others can upvote it, and you'll receive updates directly if it gets picked up.

 

Let me know if you have any further queries. 

Abhishek 

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