Quick guide for importing a coolors palette
Coolors is a great website that allows you to interactively create a beautiful and colourblind friendly colour palette for your project. Here's a quick step by step guide to exporting a palette and importing it into Inkscape.
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Go to Coolors and create a palette:
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Click the 'Export' button up in the top right:
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You should be presented with options (see below), select 'SVG':
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Save the palette file (svg) to your computer.
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In Inkscape got to the 'File' menu and select 'import'. Import the palette svg that you just saved from Coolors:
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You should now see your colour palette in Inkscape. You can use the colour select tool (highlighted in the below image) to select your colours.
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If you have a shape/text/object selected and then use the colour select tool and click on your colour palette, the selected object will take on that colour.
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That is pretty much all there is to it. Hopefully this was helpful.