Proof Color List
Overview
This PowerScript creates a list of colors from your document, perfect for quickly listing colors on approval forms or in asset documentation.
Create lists from selected shapes or swatches.
Only list Spot colors or include process colors as well.
Select the layout, including font size, rows and columns.
Choose a swatch shape such as circles, rectangles or custom shapes to be the swatch color.
NEW Preview the list of colors and edit the descriptions or uncheck them so they don't show
NEW Setup a colour library
Common colors such as CMYK 0,0,100,0 will be re-labeled as “CMYK Yellow”
Select the match type, an exact match, delta or close with a tolerance
NEW Set the position, above or below your artboard or at a fixed position on the page
Why is it needed
For approval forms, specifications sheets and the like the designer often needs to create a list of colors used in the artwork , this script simplifies the process. It can also pickup colors that should not be in the artwork, because the will also be listed.
Interface
Options Tab
Source Select the source of the colours, Selection is the current selection in Illustrator, All Swatches or just selected Swatches
Include process colors: If ticked then all colours will be listed, if un-ticked then just Spot colors will be listed
Include full color breakdown: By default the name of the color is used, ticking this option will show the actual color formula in RGB, CMYK or Lab
Position: Set where the color list will appear
[Get Colors] This will get the colours from the source and display them in the list below
[Select All] This will check all the colours in the list, if a color has not check mark it will now appear in the generated list on the page
[Select None]
Colour List You can use this list
Pressing [Create List] will generate the colour list in your document
Color Name Library Tab
Use this library to replace color formulas with named colors.
Matching Colour: Edit the colour to match to
Display name: The name the color formula will be changed to
Match type:
Exact: The color formula must be an exact match for example, CMYK:0,0,100,0 will match to “Yellow”, but CMYK:0,0,99.7,0 will not
Close: Uses the tolerance value to match the color, for example, with a tolerance of 2, CMYK:50,90,0,0 will match any color from CMYK:48,88,0,0 to CMYK:52,92,0,0
Lab ΔE: calculates the Delta-E difference between two colours and matches if below the tolerance value.
None: Will not match
Lab ΔE Method: Set the Delta E formula to use
Layout Tab
Font: The font used
Font Size: the font size used
Text left padding: This is the space between the color swatch shape the color name
Vertical spacing: The vertical space between color samples
Shape Width: The width of the color swatch shape
Shape Height: The height of the color swatch shape
Color Shape:
Custom Will use the custom shape from one you have previously saved
Circle Will generate a circle the size of the shape width and height
Rectange Will generate a rectangle the size of the shape width and height
None No color swatch
Shape: This is code used to generate the shape for the swatch shape. To create your own custom swatch shape, select a shape in Illustrator and press the Use Selected Shape as Preview button
Fit Custom shape to size: When not checked, the custom shape will be used at its original size; checking this will FIT the shape inside the shape width and height sizes.
Rows: The maximum number of vertical rows
Column Spacing: The distance between columns