Selecting colors

There are several ways of choosing colors for your design.

About selecting colors

An essential requirement for efficient design is the ability to access colors easily and intuitively. Users may have a preferred method for color selection, so Affinity apps provides a choice:

To select a stroke/fill color (using default HSL Color Wheel):
  1. Tap the Stroke or Fill color selector from the top left of the Color panel.
  2. Tap-drag for a hue color on the outer ring.
  3. Tap-drag in the inner triangle to set the combined Saturation and Lightness.
  4. (Optional) Set Opacity and Noise values using the lower sliders.

The active color selector updates to the selected color.

To switch colors between the swatch selectors:
To use a different color model:

Using swatches

The Swatches section of the Color panel provides color swatch presets that are selectable from various palettes (Colors, Gradients, PANTONE® colors) including a custom document palette.

Panel Preferences To create a document palette:
  1. Open the Color panel's Swatches section.
  2. From the Panel Preferences, select Add Document Palette.
Panel Preferences To save a color to a palette:
  1. From the Color panel, choose a color using the panel's sliders.
  2. Open the Swatches section, and select a palette (e.g. your created Document palette) from the Swatches category pop-up menu (or use left/right navigation buttons).
  3. From the Panel Preferences, select Add Current Fill to Palette. The swatch is added to the palette.
To use a color swatch:

Accessing PANTONE® Colors

A wide selection of PANTONE® colors are available in Affinity Designer. You can choose from Goe, GoeBridge and Color Bridge palettes as both coated and uncoated.

To access PANTONE® Colors:

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