Illustrator CS6 - Kuler Won't Launch

[SlamDesiAK]

Hello, All... Thanks in advance for solving my conundrum.  The extension Kuler, launched from within Illustrator CS6, quit... launching this week.  It worked last week.  I see it under Window/Extensions/Kuler but, when selected... nothing.  No Kuler palette, no access.  Any ideas of where I might begin to solve this mystery?  Again, thank you for your help.

[Ton Frederiks]

I do think Kuler is not there anymore.

If you go to kuler.adobe.com, you will get color.adobe.com.

In more recent Illustrator versions Kuler is replaced by Color Themes.

[SlamDesiAK]

Thank you, Ton.  I do believe that you're correct thus, my access to all things "Kuler" being severed.  I conferred with a colleague last night (also a CS6 holdout) and when he tried accessing Kuler... nothing launched.  It appears that this is a recent cancellation as I was using it just last week.  Thank you for the reply, Ton.  I appreciate it.

[SlamDesiAK]

Oh, one more thing, Ton.  This may be an extremely stupid question but... would the new "Color Themes" be accessible to us CS6 users??  If so, how does one install/access/utilize it?

[Ton Frederiks]

I have CC but also CS6 installed. Kuler is gone.

I don't think Color Themes will be added to CS6 since that version won't be updated.

Maybe you could ask Adobe support why Kuler disappeared.

Contact Customer Care

Or mention it here:

Adobe Illustrator Feedback

[SlamDesiAK]

Thanks very much, Ton.  And for the links.

[Ton Frederiks]

Thanks, hope that helped a little.

[SlamDesiAK]

It gave me some clarification.  In going to the links that you provided, there isn't a lot of help there other than submitting a "bug" report or, an idea of what should be put into new versions of Illustrator.  Being a licensed, legal owner of Illustrator since dirt, I didn't feel compelled to pay $50/month for a subscription.  It appears that things like this are urging CS6ers to comply involuntarily.

[SlamDesiAK]

Ton... Being "Persistent" (isn't that in Illustrator's Swatch palette?", I dug into the Kuler-to-Color Themes problem for us CS6 users.  Here's the work around:

Go to Adobe Color CC and then click on Explore.

Type in your color Search.

Select the color and download.

Save it to wherever (I created a new folder called Adobe Color Swatches via Web)

Go to Illustrator's Swatch palette and click/hold on the microscopic arrow at the upper-right.

Select "Open Swatch Library" then "Other Library..."

Go to where you saved the ".ase" swatch file, select and enter.

Voila, a new palette is created and added to your Swatch palette.

Press "Persistent" in order to see it until you're sick of it. 

Thanks for your insight and ideas, Ton.  I hope that this helps other CS6ers.

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear you found a clever workaround!