Sharing Custom Colour Palettes

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Sharing Custom Colour Palettes

Hey everyone - I can see that in any macOS application I can call up the Color Palette and create a custom set of colours.

How can I share this with a colleague?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on May 10, 2019 5:02 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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May 10, 2019 5:31 AM in response to thirdspacemusic

The Apple color palette files are located in the ~/Library/Colors folder as binary *.clr files. These can be separately shared with other Mac users on the same network by placing them in a folder within your local Public folder and sharing it on your LAN; placing the files in a folder on a NAS server, or in Dropbox, or by placing them in a new folder that you then zip compress before emailing to other Mac users as an attachment.

The Apple color palette has a gear icon with an Open… menu item that using a File Chooser, allows one to locate and open these custom color palettes if not situated in their ~/Library/Colors folder.

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Answer 2

May 10, 2019 6:21 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for this - appreciated both the typing and the link. Maybe not so much the conversation after that - maybe I would have more time for coding if I spent less time reading :)

What I discovered which might help others (or not) is:

The color palette is available to other applications (but if already open when created that application should be closed and then open again to see the new palatte
Opening the Color Palette from where it has been shared from (like email is also an option!) adds a copy of the .clr file to ~/Library/Colors

Good to know - thanks!

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