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October 24, 2011
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List of Fonts/Colors used in illustrator document

  • October 24, 2011
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Hi guys,

Is it possible to get the list of all the fonts and colors used in the active illustrator document (.ai file) ?

if yes then how?

thanx in advance...

Correct answer styletramps

oh my gosh thanks for this totally worked for me

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templatemaker-nl
Inspiring
June 24, 2021

Depending on your use case, this might also be practical:

"Save a copy..." to SVG,  using

...and open the SVG in a text editor. All colors will be represented in the top of the file as CSS properties.

 

 

 

templatemaker-nl
Inspiring
June 24, 2021

In additon to this, you can (using the Mac command line), get a list of unique colors in the SVG document:

 

grep -o \#...... colors.svg | sort | uniq
Participant
August 3, 2015

Select all objects -----> swatches panel ------> drop down icon in top right corner ----------->  add selected colours

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 11, 2017

You can:

1. Open swatches panel , then from"fly menu" select "Unused colors" and then delete them. Than you will have only used colors in your swatch panel..  You can save that color group.

2. You can delete all swatches and then add your document colors to swatches from artboard or from selected object.

3. For font you can go to Fill-package. Package your file - will include all your fonts and will generate also report file.

styletramps
styletrampsCorrect answer
Participant
December 7, 2017

oh my gosh thanks for this totally worked for me

Participant
July 23, 2012

Go to > Type > find font - (inside it) check all include in list - and click the "save list" button

Participant
July 19, 2014

Thank you very much!

Participant
August 11, 2014

Have a french localization so if you want to see all colors used in the document it's under Fenêtre/Nuancier (Windows/??? it is usually under Navigation). There you have all the colors used in the document and there you can change Swap colors to CMYK and invers… Hope this is what you were looking for… Cheers

Participant
March 26, 2012

I usually go to Print, then click on 'output' and it lists all the colours used in there. I'm not 100% sure on how foolproof it is, so I do go through the document nit-picking just in case..

A. Patterson
Inspiring
October 24, 2011

Certainly doable, but you'd have to iterate the document and build up the list yourself. Font would be pretty easy, because that's only text objects. Colour is a little trickier, just because colour can hide in so many places, but you can get a pretty good result fairly easily.

October 24, 2011

Colors is actually easy too. In the AIPathStyleSuite, check the function AdjustObjectAIColors. There's some stuff in the docs that give the general idea of how you'd catalogue all the colors used in a document.

A. Patterson
Inspiring
October 24, 2011

I thought about AdjustObjectAIColors, and its a good way to get a bunch of them but I'm not 100% sure if it covers all colours or just those found in paths. If not, this would exclude colours on effects & overlays for symbols, found in kPluginArt (though there is a similar function for plugin art specifically) and I imagine text. Probably a few other types if we look hard enough. Granted, paths are probably 90% of colours :-) I also wondered (sinc I haven't tried it before) how comprehensive that method is -- does it hit all the colours in various effects & styles layered on path? Or does it just hit the standard stroke & fill? I assume not, but I don't know.