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:
Color panel—for selection from sliders or boxes using different color models, or via an HSL color wheel. Opacity and noise are further color attributes which can be applied. A Swatches section in the panel lets you select swatches from different preset or custom categories, including PANTONE® Colors; colors can also be saved to a palette.
Color Picker Tool—for sampling colors anywhere on your screen; great for complementary color work.
Gradient Tool—apply or edit a color gradient across your object. Choose a gradient type from the tool's context toolbar.
Context toolbar—for selection of curve or brush color when using various drawing and painting tools.
To select a stroke/fill color via the Color panel:
Tap the Stroke or Fill color selector from the top left of the Color panel.
Adjust sliders for specific colors.
(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:
Tap the Stroke or Fill color selector to make it active—the frontmost swatch is considered to be active.
To use a different color model:
Tap the navigation buttons above the panel's color sliders to use RGB Hex, CMYK, HSL, LAB or Grayscale sliders instead.
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.
To create a document palette:
Open the Color panel's Swatches section.
From the Panel Preferences, select Add Document Palette.
To save a color to a palette:
From the Color panel, choose a color using the panel's sliders.
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).
From the Panel Preferences, select Add Current Fill to Palette. The swatch is added to the palette.
To use a color swatch:
Choose a palette category from the Swatches category pop-up menu.
Do one of the following:
Tap a color swatch in the palette.
Tap a swatch from the Quick Colors or Recent Colors swatches.
Tap the No fill swatch from the Quick Colors swatches to remove the stroke or fill color completely.
Accessing PANTONE® Colors
A wide selection of PANTONE® colors are available in Affinity Publisher. You can choose from Goe, GoeBridge and Color Bridge palettes as both coated and uncoated.
To access PANTONE® Colors:
From the Swatches section of the Color panel, navigate the category list (or double-tap), and select your preferred PANTONE palette.
To create a document palette: