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Palette Manager

The Palette Manager is a dedicated workspace for your palette library - the palettes you save and reuse across every pack, kept separate from the pack-level palette in the Studio panel. It has two tabs: Library for building and organizing palettes by hand, and Generate for auto-creating color-theory palettes.

It opens large, because it’s a place to do focused palette work rather than a quick menu.

Opening it

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In the Palette section of the Studio panel, open the generator menu (⋯) and choose Palette Manager. It’s the first item in the menu.

Library tab

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The Palette Manager's Library tab - saved palettes on the left, the selected palette's swatches and actions on the right

The Library tab is your full palette library, open to every user. It’s a two-pane layout:

  • Left: a list of every palette in your library, each shown with its name, a strip of its colors, and a swatch count. A New palette tile starts a fresh, empty palette.
  • Right: an editor for the palette you’ve selected.

From the editor you can:

  • Rename the palette
  • Add, remove, and reorder swatches (drag to reorder)
  • Duplicate a palette as a starting point for a variant
  • Delete a palette you no longer need
  • Apply to the active pack - copies the palette onto the pack you’re working in

Applying a palette to a pack makes a copy. Editing the library palette afterward does not change packs you’ve already applied it to, so you can keep refining a library palette without disturbing finished work.

Generate tab

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The Generate tab - base color picker, Triadic scheme, shades-per-hue slider, and the generated ramps ready to save to the library

The Generate tab builds a palette from a base color and a color-theory scheme, then expands each hue into a pixel-art ramp of light-to-dark shades.

  1. Pick a base color. It starts from your current brush color.
  2. Choose a scheme: Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous, Split-complementary, Triadic, or Tetradic.
  3. Set shades per hue with the slider. One shade gives you just the base scheme colors; higher values fan each hue into a ramp.
  4. Lock the swatches you like by clicking them, then Regenerate to re-roll everything that isn’t locked. Lock and regenerate as many times as you want until the set feels right.
  5. Save to library - names and stores the palette, then jumps you to the Library tab with the new palette selected.

Your palette library is saved in your browser, alongside your packs.

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