Hello,
Is there a way to create a custom colour list? There’s a tab when you change colours but it doesn’t seem to work?
I think it’s only possible in Windows Rhino currently… Maybe I’m wrong about that though.
Thanks for the feedback. That’s what I was afraid of ; ) It would be very useful to be able to create custom palettes. It would save time when colouring.
On Windows, when you change the tint of a colour created in a custom palette, does the colour of objects with that colour also change? Is it linked? That would be great.
I’m now not sure if you are referring to the left-hand list - which is fixed but can be changed by modifying the colors.txt file in Windows Rhino and restarting Rhino - or the list of custom colors at the bottom of the window which is populated as you make new color choices. That one is available on Mac…
(This is Windows but Mac is similar…)
No, once the color is applied, objects (or layers) are not history-related to a stored color swatch or setting.
The left-hand list is the right one.
In fact, I’m looking to create a list of specific colours for each project that could be exported, etc…
For example, when you have hundreds of hatches, it’s useful to create named custom colours such as wood, steel, glass, etc… And once you change them, they also change in the file if they are used.
Other software works like this and it’s very practical. But I’d like to make do with Rhino alone. It’s also a fairly basic function. At least the list, the link perhaps less so.
Are there any plans to adapt the Windows version to the Mac version, which would at least make it possible to create custom colour lists? Or can it otherwise be added to the wish list and improvements? That would be fantastic! 
Actually @Helvetosaur you propose something here and it helps already a lot, thanks!
actually i have been wanting this for a long time already either and also wrote about it somewhere a long time ago.
right now i would like to set up a file with RAL, or NCS colours or maybe even Pantone, or any Light colors according to Kelvin, i would dearly wish for this to happen
here for instance if we select the metal from the predefined materials we have these in the custom list, but only then. would it not make sense to be able to add as many lists as needed, which you can also access anytime?
@nathanletwory have you got an idea how this could be accomblished, could i hack some internal lists for instance? if not can this become a tracker pls pls
i have a mac, does that still work? it writes windows only
I don’t know. I only know of the existance of this thing in the docs, I have never used it.
ok i will try to find a list somewhere in the folders, since there is a list for windows it can not be so much different there
I just realized that the documentation says this is Windows only, just like already mentioned way at the top Color Management: no custom list? - #2 by Helvetosaur
Logged request: RH-83791 Support custom color list on Mac
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@curtisw any chance that will show up in a wip version?
Hi,
Thanks @nathanletwory for registering a request, it’s appreciated. This isn’t the first post on this topic actually, these posts are also to be considered for this request given the interest it generates with over 9k views in total :
In connection with this old request:
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-20993
- The best thing would be to be able to create custom colour lists from the Rhino interface as suggested in the parallel posts.
- It would be nice to be able to modify the colours created afterwards. So that if you adjust one of these colours, the colours of the objects and layers using it also change.
In other words, if you create a ‘red’ and/or ‘sanitary’ colour and modify it afterwards, the objects and layers to which you have assigned the colour ‘red’ and ‘sanitary’ keep the colour ‘red’ and ‘sanitary’ and therefore take on the changes if these colours have been adjusted.
Illustrator and Archicad work in this way, for example. Referencing colours would save a considerable amount of time.