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About Color Palettes

The default color choices available to you in the Layout Editor and the Property Palette are derived from the current color palette. Color palettes can be edited and saved to the file system.

The default color palette has the following characteristics:

  1. The upper-left region of the palette contains 16 commonly used colors with the following names: black, white, green, darkgreen, gray, dark gray, cyan, dark cyan, red, darkred, blue, darkblue, yellow, darkyellow, magenta, dark magenta.
  2. The lower-left region of the palette contains eight empty cells into which you can place custom defined colors.
  3. The next four columns are composed of varying shades of gray. Each color is named 'gray<value>', according to its percentage gray value. The values range from 4 to 96, in increments of 4. For example, valid color names include 'gray96', 'gray92', and 'gray4'.
  4. The remainder of the palette contains colors specified by varying percentages of red, green, and blue (RGB) components:

  5. Except for the color cells described above, the palette is composed of five major regions, each containing 36 colors in a 6x6 arrangement. These colors are defined by the following rules: