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I'm looking for a tool or strategy (web app, software, Photoshop feature etc.) that will let me display all swatches I have in a '.aco' or '.ase' file in a table and saved as a PDF (preferably) for documentation. When I picture it in my head I'm seeing something like a periodic table, showing the color in a square and adjacent to it showing the RGB for that color. It's basically to share the brand color palette to our dev teams who doesn't have the Adobe suite to look up colors themselves.

Does anyone know of any tool that does what I describe?

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something like the one on dribbble.com ? link: bit.ly/13hGXV5 *Look on the right side of the picture under the droplet small icon, there is a strip of colors in the viewed image. – Flavius Frantz Feb 25 at 13:49
Yea, pretty close at least. Though I would prefer to have it displayed statically, to print it or add it to a documentation. So I need a solution that doesn't require hover to see colour codes. – AndroidHustle Feb 25 at 14:18
I think the tool you are looking for is you and your computer, or if you are in the position for it, an intern. You have given what you want some thought and thus likely know best how to make it. Using Photoshop will allow you to upload a theme to Kuler. How many swatches are you talking about? – brnnnrsmssn Feb 26 at 0:50
@brnnnrsmssn 116... =\ And no, I'm not in a position to assign an intern to it, we don't have any interns here. I feel that I have some more pressing tasks than to commit the time needed to document the swatch sheet. I provided a temporary solution now, involving the cutting out of the swatch sheet from our brand book and getting the colour codes for the swatching using ColorZilla in Firefox. However that only works when you're on a desktop/laptop. – AndroidHustle Feb 26 at 7:59
The intern thing was intended as a joke. Quick google search and I found these: Palette Parser and Babel Color. Also tried opening an *.ase file with notepad—the color values seem to be stored in plain text. As a side project you could maybe write a javascript that would extract the color information from the file and dynamically write some HTML and CSS to display exactly what you are wanting. Then a simple print to .pdf would work. – brnnnrsmssn Feb 26 at 14:57
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