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I'm working on various color schemes for my design elements. I wish I could simply fill the elements by copying and pasting hex-values using keyboard shortcuts.
Everytime, I have to double click on the 'Fill' to open 'Color Picker' where I get to paste the copied hex value, which is breaking my flow.
Is there a way to set a shortcut or workaround to address this issue?
Use the Color Panel not the Color Picker. That's the entire reason there is a Color Panel in Illustrator. You do not ever really need the Color Picker.
, set to Color as a shortcut. Every time I select an element, hit , and try to paste the color, it get's printed on screen as a new text layer. So, using Color Panel isn't helping hoping I'm not doing anything wrong.
Aug 4, 2018 at 9:53
Set your base color (CYMK/ RGB / Hex)
First set your eyedroper copy and paste attributes. Double click the eyedropper tool.
Then if you are satisfied. Select the target layer or object and press I.
This will copy the appearance (Fill,Stroke, Colors etc.) and paste it to the chosen layer or object.
That's my workflow:
If you can see any color outside the illustrator you can grab its color using the eyedropper tool.
Select the object you want to apply the color. Pick the eyedropper tool. Click and drag it to outside the illustrator (don't release it).
Now it will sample any color inside and outside Illstrator.
I made a picture grabing colors from this site.
See it below:
I see you're in a lot of pain.
You can directly click on the hex panel here.
It will reduce 'one' click of yours. That's half relief i guess. :D
I am facing same problem. No keyboard shortcut can be assigned for this.
Unfortunately, there's no way to open the Color Picker (which is inarguably the superior color panel, despite what other comments may suggest) via shortcut without going to the bother of writing a JSX script, adding it you your Illustrator startup scripts, recording an action to run the script, then assigning a macro to run the action. That's probably more work than it's worth in most cases, but something like this would be the code you'd need:
app.showColorPicker(
app.activeDocument[
"default" + (app.isFillActive() ? "Fill" : "Stroke") + "Color"
]
);
It's a really goofy thing for Adobe to leave out as an option in the custom keyboard shortcuts menu, even if they don't want to assign one by default.
