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Is it possible to use or find more than five colors?

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January 30, 2012
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hello 🙂

Is it possible to find a harmony of eleven colors in adobe kuler?
And if it - is how can I do this?

greets Jasmin

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Correct answer VikramSethi

Hello Jasmin,

Kuler does not support more than five colors as of now. It would be great if you can talk about a few workflows where you find having more than five colors useful.

Regards,

Kuler team

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ansonphong

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Almost every single color application I can think of requires more or less than 5 colors. The question I have is, why is it locked on 5 colors?

For instance, designing themes for app interfaces typically has 10 colors, or designing for depth map gradients in Unreal engine requires only 4 colors. It is rare that I have never seen an application design which required precisly 5 colors.

Bassefrans

Inspiring

"It would be great if you can talk about a few workflows where you find having more than five colors useful."

Gee, when in the world would it ever be useful with more than five colors? 🙊

I am making 2D animations for a kids show. I am working in Illustrator and After Effects.

I need to organize my colors in categories; some for characters, some for objects/vehicles/etc., some for the backgrounds in different themes/settings, etc. I would love to have my colors neatly organized in different groups; as a big color map to make it easier to keep my palette uniform during the production.

Five colors per group is therefore extremely limiting and impractical.

Also it would be very handy to be able to simply double click a color to copy the HEX values, since the eye dropper tool in AI and AE wont sample outside the program window.

I've spent hours now trying to find a good solution. Adobe Color is ALMOST there, but I won't use it because of this weird five-color-limit.

I've seen some online solutions, but I would like to be able to save my palette offline. I'm surprised at the lack of simple and practical solutions to this. What on earth are other designers doing?

lallalori

Participating Frequently

Hello,

I'm adding my voice for inclusion of at least a few more colors as 5 is very limiting, and for a few different reasons. The biggest is to allow me to create designs for Spoonflower, which is a site that can print material based on uploaded images.

(Sidebar: I also added my voice to the Capture "Looks" thread to add it back in - I can't seem to get access to my main "Looks" swatch for Spoonflower).

Best regards,

Lori

spIinter

Participating Frequently

I'm too requesting the possibility to add more thna five colors. As of now it's pretty much unusable and instead I use other websites.

ocelot77

Participating Frequently

+1 for more than 5 colors! I agree with Martin that since you can save right to your Libraries, Color CC should definitely be used in production and not simply inspiration--very strange limitation.

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martinr12863119

Participant

+1 for more than 5 colors please. Color CC, while not listed in the actual CC app, does have "CC" in its name. To say it's intended for inspiration vs production is a bit strange, since you can save and it immediately shows in your Libraries...for production.

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jmlg12

Inspiring

I agree, it could really be valuable to add support for more than 5 colors in "Color/Capture"

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Webright

Participant

Six years later people are still asking for more than five colours in Kuler and still we hear the same answers? I have been paying for 7 years for 3 adobe products and still I cannot add more colours to Kuler. Still I have to make my own colour schemes and still unable to use Kuler because it's limited. There should be a standard of 5 colours with possibilities to add more. Shame.

Kuler teams first answer - Quote: "It would be great if you can talk about a few workflows where you find having more than five colors useful." eerh Choose any website except Adobe or Apple.

Please fix this.

Stephen

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Stephen/JMLG

All of the examples people have posted, for the need for more colors, prove that the additional colors in a theme would be really useful to people using the app. Although I did at one point think the team was considering the inclusion of this capability, this conversation hasn't come up in quite some time, so I no longer know what's happening with regard to it.

I can bring it to the attention of the product team and emphasize that it's a request that (at least with regard to this post) is over five years old.

Sue.

xtd8865

Known Participant

Please do bring it to their attention. I can't believe that after 3 years nothing has been done about it. I have just spent 20 minutes trying to find a way to add the 6th color before I realised it's not me, it's Adobe. I can't believe that such, no offence but, stupid limitation would be imposed on an otherwise great tool.

Thank you

Marcin

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Rustedsoul

Participant

Hey there - I work with a Global design team and our brand has 17 colors in our color system.

Please please please allow us to add more colors.

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BakerBrite

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Preface-- I do web design, development and graphic design.

This thread was started in 2012 and it blows my mind that the option for additional colors still hasn't been integrated. As a user that pays $650/yr for Creative Cloud services, it hits a nerve that our feedback and needs are being completely ignored. Especially when the feature in itself is a simple integration. Color inspiration is found from a mood board, not a fully integrated color tool that's meant to be utilized daily in the design process. 5 colors works for interior decorators, not the majority of the Adobe user base that are graphic artists, digital designers, developers, filmmakers and so on.

Thankfully there are amazing desktop tools like Sip that make up for this shortcoming. If you're looking for a fantastic, intuitive & easily accessible color tool to use while working, Sip is it. Enjoy!

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TommyHood

Participant

Thanks BakerBrite!!!

I couldn't agree more!!
I am CONSTANTLY giving feedback on multiple Adobe apps, that I feel are being completely ignored and are VERY much needed. AND on top of that are very MINOR changes in the grand engineering scheme of things.

We need more colors on Kuler.

We need a editable, resizable Re-Captcha option on Muse

And on the iPad Adobe Draw and Adobe Sketch we need the eraser brush to be pressure sensitive (this one is the most infuriating, why would you EVER have created this app with pressure sensitive brushes and a FLAT, BLOB of an eraser brush????

Don't worry BakerBrite, they won't ignore this. No, they'll tell us we're not posting in the correct forum