Copying and Pasting Colours

There are three ways to copy and paste colour swatches:

  • Paste as New Colours: This create a new colour swatch with the same colour value, but with a different colour ID as the original swatch.
  • Paste as Clones: This creates a new colour swatch with the same colour value and the same colour ID as the original swatch.
  • Paste Colour Values: This replaces the colour values in the selected colour swatch with the colour values from the copied swatch.

Pasting a colour as a clone is useful if you’ve created a clone of a palette, then added a new swatch in the original palette, and need to add a swatch with the same colour ID in the clone palette.

NOTE A palette cannot have two swatches with the same colour ID. Hence, you can only paste colours as clones in a different palette than the ones the colours were copied from.

If, for any reason, you need to obtain the colour ID of your colour swatches, whether to make a reference table of them, or to compare the colour IDs of two swatches, you can copy the colour ID of a colour swatch to the clipboard. You cannot paste a colour ID anywhere on a colour swatch, but you can paste it in a text editor or a spreadsheet application for your own purposes.

A colour ID is a string of 16 hexadecimal digits, i.e.: 075cf5b552401130.

NOTE

If you are using Harmony Server, make sure you have the rights to modify the selected palette by doing one of the following:

  • In the Colour view, make sure the Edit Palette Mode toggle button is pressed in.
  • In the palette list of the Colour view, right-click on the selected palette and select either Get Rights to Modify Palette or Get Rights to Modify All Palettes.
  • From the Colour view menu , select Palettes > Get Rights to Modify Palette or Get Rights to Modify All Palettes.
  1. In the Colour view, select one or more colours to copy.

  1. In the Colour View menu, select Colours > Copy or press Ctrl + C (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + C (macOS).
  1. In the Palette list, select the palette in which you want to paste the colours.

  1. From the Colour View menu, select Colours > Paste as New Colours or press Ctrl + V (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + V (macOS).
  • To paste the colour values of the copied swatch over an existing colour swatch, select Colours > Paste Colour Values.
  1. In the Colour view, select the colour swatch you want to clone.
  1. From the Colour View menu, select Colours > Copy or press Ctrl + C (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + C (macOS).
  1. In the Colour view, select the colour palette you want to paste the clone into or create a new palette.
  1. From the Colour View menu, select Colours > Paste as Clone.

The cloned colour swatch appears in the palette.

  1. In the Colour view, select the colour swatch from which you want to copy the ID.
  1. From the Colour View menu, select Colours > Copy Colour ID or press Ctrl + C (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + C (macOS).
  1. Paste the copied colour ID in a document.