Selecting colours

There are several ways of choosing colours for your design.

About selecting colours

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

To select a stroke/fill colour via the Colour panel:
  1. Tap the Stroke or Fill colour selector from the top left of the Colour panel.
  2. Adjust sliders for specific colours.
  3. (Optional) Set Opacity and Noise values using the lower sliders.

The active colour selector updates to the selected colour.

To switch colours between the swatch selectors:
To use a different colour model:

Using swatches

The Swatches section of the Colour panel provides colour swatch presets that are selectable from various palettes (Colours, Gradients, PANTONE® colours) including a custom document palette.

Panel Preferences To create a document palette:
  1. Open the Colour panel's Swatches section.
  2. From the Panel Preferences, select Add Document Palette.
Panel Preferences To save a colour to a palette:
  1. From the Colour panel, choose a colour 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 colour swatch:

Accessing PANTONE® Colours

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

To access PANTONE® Colours:

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