Colour Panel popup partly off screen

[dinsyp]

Hi People,

Since InDesign 17.1, I've found that what I open up the colour panel under Appearance to change the colout of text, the top of the panel disappears off screen like below.

As a result, I am unable to select the text fill icon to set a colour for the text.

If I pull the InDesign window down, I can see the whole panel:

I'm unable to drag the panel lower in the screen.

I note that the same behaviour doesn't happen with rectangle or similar fills.

Can this be fixed please as its downright annoying.

Andrew

[defaultl2dcn3pi5o8u]

Try: Under Preferences / Interface / Panels Section - Uncheck: Auto-Collapse Icon Panels

[dinsyp]

It was already unchecked. Only affecting the panel when attempting the change text colour.

[Randy Hagan]

You may find you have to drag the Appearance panel icon off the InDesign Sidebar onto the document window to separate the panel and make it easier to access the various commands and get InDesign to do what you want. Or better still, go to the Window pull-down menu and select the Color sub-menu to access either the Swatches panel to use a pre-defined color or the Color panel to define a brand new one.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[dinsyp]

Hi People,

I've realised that this only happens with the Essentials workspace. The other workspaced place the appearance settings in the toolbard at the top of the workspace where clicking the T fill icon goes directly to the Colour Picker rather that the swatches.

So I will change workspaces.

Andrew

[Holly29381501iqwa]

Had same issue and couldn't even move the pop up window, in Essentials. Had to minimize the whole screen just to see the whole appearance colour palette. Very annoying. Have now switched to Digital Publishing workspace too, thanks Andrew.
Issue:

Only way for me to see the whole palette in 'essentials' workspace 😐

[shelterherenow · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew, I was having this issue as well on my MacBook Pro 16" using the default settings for Essentials workspace in InDesign 2025. I think I found another workaround that might allow you to continue using the Essentials workspace...

I just remembered that a couple weeks ago, I increased the UI Sizing under Preferences (Preferences> User Interface Scaling > Options for UI Sizing: Medium) to reduce eye strain. So just now, I moved that same UI Sizing slider back to "Small," restarted InDesign, and now when I click on the Fill icon from the Properties panel under Appearance, the Swatches panel appears.

Curious if this resolves your issue?

BEFORE (Swatches NOT opening when I click Fill icon):

AFTER (Swatches are now opening when I click Fill icon):

I realize this is a workaround and it needs to be fixed by Adobe.

[dinsyp]

Thanks. I've just tried the text fill under the latest version of InDesign (20.0) and Adobe appeared to have fixed the issue by placing the fill window to the left of the panel rather than above which we were seeing earlier.

[DinsyPiranha]

I think Adobe have fixed this now. When I select text fill under Appearance, the colour panel now appears to the left.

Which is much better 🙂