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Can you do captions for swatch values?

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March 16, 2021
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Hi,

As the title suggests, I'm wondering if you can some how add captions that automatically give colour values for selected swatches (I'd like all profiles ideally (RGB, CMYK, HSB, Hex, spot names)).

As you'll know, captions have many options but it's pulling the info from meta data on an image, not a swatch from within InDesign or a library file...so could this be done for a selected swatch somehow?

(My use case scenario is for creating brand guidelines and not having to type in every colour value; I'm just thinking there must be an automatic way of doing this and I'm missing it.)

Thanks 🙂

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Correct answer rob day

If the branding master colors are Pantone or Lab colors, this thread might help:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/branding-color-guide/td-p/10818696

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KMColor

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Hi! I was wondering if you ever found a script to do this for you? I would like to do something similar, but instead of adding the color values, I would like the caption to be the color swatch name.

Thanks!

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soulglowdeejAuthor

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The script from Rob worked for me (above) 🙂

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KMColor

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Thank you!

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/color-palette-as-caption-or-text/m-p/9045874

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soulglowdeejAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Eugene. It looks like that link isn't there anymore, but it does show that i'm not missing something simple within InDesign; other people have the same question too 🙂

Thanks again 🙂

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soulglowdeejAuthor

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selected swatches (I'd like all profiles ideally (RGB, CMYK, HSB, Hex, spot names))

Looks like swatchwatcher labels the colors with their color mode values—it doesn’t give the conversions you are looking for.

For RGB, CMYK, HSB, and Hex colors the conversion numbers are dependent on the document’s color settings (assigned profiles, intent, black point compensation), which could be anything. The linked script in the thread I posted does that, but the document color settings are defined in the script and labels.

Hi Rob,

ah-ha! I completely missed that this had a script and generates pretty much everything I'd need; I glanced over it and thought it was more a discussion and reference table. Very, very nice work!

(I particularly like the in/out of gamut range addition; that's a seriously handy nugget of info for designers.)

Thanks so much again for replying Rob, and following up to point out I need to slow down and actually read what you shared! It's not the exact thing I was after but is a huge help, and what I'll use going forward.

Big Thanks 😊 *respect fist bump*

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

If the branding master colors are Pantone or Lab colors, this thread might help:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/branding-color-guide/td-p/10818696

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soulglowdeejAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Rob. That's an interesting discussion...definitely one for the print professionals amongst us.

Thanks 🙂

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soulglowdeejAuthor

Inspiring

After posting i found this short thread which is asking a very simialr thing: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/swatch-name-live-captions/td-p/9063641

So it looks like you can't use captions, but maybe it can be scripted....which I do not have the brain to do...anyone know any scripts out there which do this?

Thanks