Palettes

• Last updated on March 17, 2025
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In the Palettes section, you can store color schemes for themes, swatches, and design colors. Customer's Canvas supports palettes in the APL format (Aurigma Palette).

Both the table view and the list view display a thumbnail with a palette preview.

Uploading palettes

To add palettes to your account:

1. Navigate to the Assets section and select Palettes.
2. Upload files by clicking New > Import or by dragging them from your computer.

The palette type is automatically identified during import based on the file extension. Only APL palettes can be uploaded. However, you can create a palette description in a dedicated CSV format, which will be converted to a palette upon upload.

You can use folders to keep your files organized. For example, create subfolders for different palette types or primary colors.

Note that you may want to copy palettes between subfolders. In this case, these palette instances will maintain the initial UID value but will obtain different IDs. These identifiers can be observed in the asset properties.

Creating palettes

To create a new palette, you can import a CSV file consisting of a single sheet that contains one group of columns defining the palette in either Hex, RGB, or CMYK format:

Each row represents a separate swatch.

If the Pantone column is set, a spot color is created, where the Ink Color corresponds to the value of this column, and the Preview Color is created based on the Hex, RGB, or CMYK value.

To define a swatch name, provide either its Title or Pantone. Otherwise, it will be an empty string.

To create a group of swatches, define the group name in the Group column for those swatches.

Technical Note

For users interested in the internal representation, the imported palettes are stored in JSON format. For example, the palette defined through the Hex values above, will look as follows:

{
    "uid": "VSSE-VEAS",
    "swatches": [
        {
            "tags": {},
            "swatchValue": {
                "color": {
                    "ink": {
                        "name": "PANTONE 2027 C",
                        "alternativeColor": {
                            "r": 238,
                            "g": 83,
                            "b": 64,
                            "alpha": 255,
                            "profile": null,
                            "colorSpace": 0
                        },
                        "solidity": 1.0
                    },
                    "tint": 255,
                    "alpha": 255,
                    "colorSpace": 4
                }
            },
            "group": "Red Shades",
            "version": "7.0.21",
            "id": "404e8c32-0a51-492e-a780-b6d8caef04f3",
            "name": "Angry Flamingo"
        },
        {
            "tags": {},
            "swatchValue": {
                "color": {
                    "r": 204,
                    "g": 51,
                    "b": 51,
                    "alpha": 255,
                    "profile": null,
                    "colorSpace": 0
                }
            },
            "version": "7.0.21",
            "id": "68b1661d-3b58-41f1-8748-3bf6b9a557d0",
            "name": "rgb(204,51,51)"
        }
    ],
    "count": 2
}