New functionality and design for color picker

Hello everyone!

As CMS crew we are responsible for the whole process of your website creation within WA and content editing. Recently we had to look at our color picker and review it’s functionality. We’ve listed ideas for improvement, but we would really love to ask our clients - how important this change is for you? Please look at presentation linked below with list of changes we propose. If you have any comments, please leave them here, we would love to hear your feedback. If you think that this change is rather important - please vote for it.

Link to the google slides presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g9n2mzxEp1kfkAsdSrm4ziVUwk8RzZUf2cJTA_bHm6s/edit?usp=sharing

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Team CMS shared this idea · Jul 13, 2016 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminKatya Tyukina (Director of Product Management, Wild Apricot by Personify) responded · Oct 5, 2020

In version 7.15 we added the ability to work with custom colors to the ‘Colors and styles’ functionality.

Thank you again for your comments and votes!

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Work in progress ·

AdminKatya Tyukina (Director of Product Management, Wild Apricot by Personify) responded · Aug 27, 2020

Hi there, thank you for the feedback and comments.

We continue to receive questions regarding the ability to work with Custom colors, so we decided to push this forward.

‘Custom colors’ palette (add and reuse colors) will be available in the color picker for ‘Colors and styles’ module from the next 7.15 release.

We have plans to repeat this function for other modules where color picker is presented (web pages, web templates, emails, event details, etc.), just don’t have any ETA yet.

Unfortunately, we didn’t find a quick and elegant solution on how to work with Theme palette, update and apply new colors for website. So we are going to postpone this particular question and maybe come back to it later. Please vote and add you comments here: https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932/suggestions/33134827

Have a nice day!

Katya Tyukina,
Product manager of Wild Apricot by Personify

Work in progress ·

AdminKatya Tyukina (Director of Product Management, Wild Apricot by Personify) responded · Jun 23, 2020

Hi there, this idea is long overdue for an update, sorry for such a long pause.

Last week we released the new Quick customization panel for ‘Colors and styles’ functionality. As part of these changes, we also included a new color picker there, as the first step, one of the places in product where we use color picker.

This changes are currently available just for Skyline and Whiteboard themes but will be rolled out to other themes in the coming weeks.

Happy to hear your feedback.
Thanks for your votes and comments.

Katya Tyukina,
Product manager of Wild Apricot, by Personify

Team CMS responded · Jul 13, 2016

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carolyn commented · July 4, 2020 10:22 AM · Report

i am using the kaleidoscope theme and there doesn't appear to be a way to either change the theme colors or save custom colors in the color picker. i would like to specify a palette of colors and be able to select them easily from the color picker. i know i can specify a custom color but i'm not going to type a hex code in every time i want those colors. is this the functionality you just rolled out to some themes and not others?

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National Employee commented · December 9, 2016 10:37 AM · Report

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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m_etter commented · October 14, 2016 12:18 PM · Report

This is definitely a needed change and I like the ability to specify RGB in addition to hex. Right now I'm using one application to use an eyedropper to identify a specific color and a second to find hex codes for the colors I want and this would eliminate that need. The most important feature to me though is the custom color palette although I'd prefer to just be able to edit the theme colors and that would eliminate the need for me for the custom color palette.

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Brandon Longley commented · July 26, 2016 2:03 AM · Report

This would be fantastic. Makes choosing the correct colour a lot easier, especially easier for the average person who doesn't use hex codes.

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agcohio commented · July 25, 2016 10:48 AM · Report

i really would like this as I use it all the time with Photoshop and it is very frustrating not be able to pick exactly the colors you want.

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