Colour

The Color panel holds one fill colour and one stroke colour at a time, with three ways to pick a shade and a history you can always fall back on.

The Color panel works with two colours at once: Color 1, a filled circle, is the fill; Color 2, a ring around it, is the stroke. Click either to make it the active slot. Everything below the two circles then edits that one colour.

Fill and stroke slots#

A red diagonal line across a slot means that colour is not in use: the shape has no fill, or no stroke. It is drawn on a vector layer, where fill and stroke mean something, and not on a Raster or Pixel layer, where they do not. Swap exchanges Color 1 and Color 2, none included. The eyedropper next to them samples a colour by press-and-drag: a live preview follows the cursor, and the colour applies to the active slot on release.

Picking a colour#

Three picker styles are available from the options menu: Square, the default, with a hue ring around an SV square; Triangle, with the SV area as a triangle that rotates with the hue; and Classic, a plain SV square over a hue bar. Whichever you choose is remembered.

Below the wheel, a Mode combo switches the value fields between HEX, RGB and HSV: HEX is one field with a hash prefix and commits only when you press Enter, while RGB (0 to 255 per channel) and HSV (hue 0 to 360, saturation and value 0 to 100) are live sliders.

Opacity#

The opacity bar below the wheel is a chequerboard-to-solid ramp for the active colour's alpha, from 0 to 100%, with the current value shown alongside.

History and Favourites#

Every colour you apply is added to the History strip, most recent first, up to 24 entries. Fully transparent colours are never recorded there. Favourites is a second, permanent strip you build yourself: the + button adds the active colour, up to 32 of them, and a middle-click on any favourite removes it.

Where a colour lands#

Applying a colour writes it to whichever slot is active, on every selected Shape layer: Color 1 to the fill, Color 2 to the stroke, auto-keying the Fill Color or Stroke Color channel if that shape is animated. If a gradient stop is selected instead, the colour goes into that stop rather than replacing the whole fill or stroke; see Gradients.

The options menu#

• Show History / Show Favorites / Show Opacity / Show Values: hide or show each strip
• Picker Style: Square, Triangle or Classic
• Copy Color / Paste Color: as a hex code; paste also accepts an 8-digit hex with alpha
• Clear History: empties the History strip
• Swap Fill/Stroke: the same action as the swap icon
• Add to Swatches: pushes the active colour into the Swatches panel

What persists#

The Color panel saves itself automatically: the active slot, the HEX/RGB/HSV mode, which strips are shown, the picker style, both current colours, and the entire History and Favourites lists all survive a restart.