Is there a plugin etc. for identifying and naming colours?

[thomasisthomas]

I am slightly colour blind and it would be really helful to me if there was a way to identify and name colours automatically in illustrator. Some tones make me uncertain, like some purples look a bit like blue to me.

It could already be a feature, because After Effects manage to to do it. When I use the colour picker in the solids panel, it identifies any colour I hover over on my screen, naming them "medium royal blue", "dark grey red" or what not. Through the years I have not found anything like this in Illustrator, but maybe there is a plugin or such?

[Monika Gause]

I haven't come accross a plugin that does this. You can post this as a feature request in https://illustrator.uservoice.com 

You know that there are devices for blind people that can tell colors?

[thomasisthomas]

I see, thank you:)

No, I didn't know that. I have the mild protan colourblindness, so most of the time I get by. Even in my work, it's rarely a problem. It's only some times, like when there is little red in a purple and it just looks blue too me, or when som green, brown, yellow colours have low saturation and they get a bit confusing to me.
This is why the way the colour picker in after effects solids is so helpful and I don't understand why it can't be like that in all adobe softwares...

[Monika Gause]

Windows or Mac? 

I searched for system extensions: https://www.hikarun.com/e/  (Windows)

[thomasisthomas]

Thank you:) 
I am on a mac.

[Monika Gause]

Perhaps this thing?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/color-blind-pal/id1023111433?mt=12 

[thomasisthomas]

Thank you. This might be helpfull. I downloaded and installed it now, but for some reason it will not open or do anything when I press open.

[Monika Gause]

I can not help you with that. Please contact the developer.

[Egor Chistyakov]

There is an exact request about this I made 5 years ago: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/324...

Please upvote!

[thomasisthomas]

I mean,  After Effects already does this flawelessly if you use the colour picker inside the solids settings panel. So Adobe has it covered in one place at least.

[Monika Gause]

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@thomasisthomas  schrieb:

I mean,  After Effects already does this flawelessly

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Basically all the Adobe apps have different codebases. You cannot just copy and paste the code. 

[thomasisthomas]

Yes, of course:) But it should be possible to implement somehow.

[Monika Gause]

Egor's feature request has 17 supportes. That is just not a lot. 

[thomasisthomas]

Well, us colour blind people are in the minority, so...