Is it possible to use or find more than five colors?

[more_than_five_colors_]

hello 🙂

Is it possible to find a harmony of eleven colors in adobe kuler?
And if it - is how can I do this?

greets Jasmin

[VikramSethi · Accepted solution]

Hello Jasmin,

Kuler does not support more than five colors as of now. It would be great if you can talk about a few workflows where you find having more than five colors useful.

Regards,

Kuler team

[lebing]

Just wanted to add to this discussion. As a brand designer along with defining color usage, across ui, print, etc., I distribute and manage access to our brand standards. Currently we share .ase files via a centralized brand site. If we could share these via Kuler it could be great. We also create pallettes that are more extensive than 5 colors. My thinking would be that we would initially create a pallette in one of the CC apps (illustrator, fireworks, indesign, etc.) and sync the pallette to kuler so that anyone within our organization or externally would always have the latest version of our color systems. Beyond that it would be great if we could grant access to people within our organization permissions to edit or not. Maybe this is built into CC in some way, if so I'm not familiar.

Best,

Tyler

[LucidLethargy]

I am rather shocked at this 5 color limitation. Every company I've ever worked at has a palette of at least 10 colors they use all across the board.  Please add the option to expand this, I find it insanely shortsighted that this is not allowed. The workaround is easy enough (multiple sets) but this seems so incredibly unnecessary and disjointed. I also find it odd you can't name these colors individually, why is that?

[Dave_E]

Hi LucidLethargy,

Thanks for the perspective. 

Kuler is focused almost entirely on color inspiration.  Our philosophy has been that 5 colors is a good jumping off point--and, adding more colors would move the focus away from inspiration and more towards production.  I genuinely want to know if you agree or disagree with this line of thinking?

All that said, there is still probably room in Kuler for more colors or some sort of deeper view of each theme.  And, I defnitiley think this is something we should investigate further. 

Looking forward to your response.

Dave

[LucidLethargy]

I was attempting to use Kuler as a means to unite all the adobe programs around my color templates. With this use in mind, I was definitely interested in seeing the option to add more colors. Strangely enough, however, I've learned Kuler doesn't sync with photoshop CC (you can save to the web from it, but you can't download to PS from Kuler,) so I'm not entirely sure how useful this is to me. I have to manually download the profiles and drag them into the swatches category in order to use them, which to be fair is pretty useful (better than me manually entering them) - but it's a far cry from the ideal cloud-based organization structure of having your pallette's right where you need them in all your adobe applications.

My two cents: Adobe needs a much more comprehensive overhaul for tieing in professional pallette's. This may be Kuler, or it may not... either way, I see no difference thus far between using the products as I used to and using the creative cloud. When I think of cloud-based products I think of everything I need being tied to my account. Currently that's not possible with colors, it seems.

For what it's worth, I think it's implemented very well in InDesign, so with that respect I think Kuler is great save for the limitation of 5 colors. Perhaps it's worth having a "create" category, and a "library" category - that way you can label each color and save them in any amount you wish for retention of your current pallette's. I think that would be really cool - and if it was tied into Photoshop the same way it is tied into InDesign it would be nearly perfect. Seems like a relatively small tweak to the overall structure with a big payoff for us professionals if it can be implemented.

[Dave_E]

This is really helpful.  Thank you for hte input LucidLethargy.

[jmlg12]

Hi,

I agree with all post of that feed, even if the first intent of Kuler was to capture and share some "cool" mood about color harmony for a Designer, it's a so cool and smart tool and environment that I'm confident that Adobe can't restrict Kuler in managing only 5 swatches at a time.

But in the other hand, it would be great if you can extend the tool allowing to name each swatch, selecting the default color schemas (rgn, hex, Lab,...) but also by extending the support of .ase files in AdobeBridge, AEM Dam, or even desktop explorer I'm order to manage/Crete a thumbnail of the "color swatches" natively.

In my opinion, once again, as often at Adobe, it's a very cool app issued from the developers creative team, but which is not pushed enough at a "professional" usable level.

JM

[yucelm]

I absolutely agree. What is missing at this point is that being able to create brand palettes and sync them via cloud. Saving swatches on my computer is nice but it contradicts with Adobe's cloud first mentality. Being able to load color schemes from CC libraries much like any other asset would be extremely helpful.

[SGoodship]

Kuler is a very kul tool. I have been experimenting with it on my iPhone and really want to incorporate into workflow. If you are doing branding, you have primary color themes and secondary themes. This is often going to amount to more than 5 colors. Often, a designer knows that they have to create a specific number of colors for a design project (maybe a set of icons or something). 5 is just not helpful for the way designers work. I understand that Kuler was initially intended as inspiration but the minute you decided to integrate with Adove apps and carry themes into the apps to use, it's way beyond inspiration. A color inspiration tool that can go right into practical design is needed and if that is Kuler, you seem like you are most of the way there already. Thanks for being open to feedback.

[ted_grunberg]

I'm working on a financial site that requires multiple colors for graphing.  I like the idea of using our color palate as a starting off point to create charting colors but I need far more than 5 colors.  The trick of doing this right is to base the charting colors that work with the color palate and just don't look like random colors.

[Guldvarg]

Hi, im a designer of apps, games, webs and brands in general.

I've just recently found the integration of Kuler in Illustrator and love it!

A option to add more colors in Kuler in combination with a extended Adobe suite integration would make Kuler a must have for every project since you that way can avoid having to manually set up a color scheme for every new project and the hassle to sync that color scheme between the products in your suite.

[Marc Beekhuis]

I create color spectrums for pollution / solar irradiation maps. They often contain more than 12 colors per chart. So hell yeah we need more than five swatches.

[lucaspereiranery]

Yeah!! Please make it possible to add more colors!!!

[TommyHood]

One example for a workflow where I use up to 9 colors at times is t-shirt screen printing.

Thanks

[Sue Garibaldi]

Thanks Tommy,

This is actually a super great example of why it's a needed feature.

Sue.

[ZappaJul]

I'm surprised that Adobe needs to ask this - it seems so obvious! - but here are some reasons 🙂

1. As a textile designer I used to create palettes of more than 5 colours all the time; a single print could have 5, 10, even 20 colours. A seasonal design palette (including that print, plus say, knitwear and leather) might have a lot more, including shades of each colour.
2. Currently working on a user interface colour project for an app, and need to create several palettes of 10 colours each, that look very different to each other.

Adobe colour is a wonderful app, but the 5 colour limitation is so crippling it makes it more or less unusable for me. I'm actually curious to understand in what discipline just 5 colours is actually enough?

[fab-design]

The 5 color limitation makes it unusable for a lot of uses such as data chart generating, extensive brand guidelines, illustration guidelines, etc.

This question was asked over 8 years ago... nothing seems to change.

What other tools have you guys been using?

[spIinter]

I’ve been using www.coolors.co. It has a useful add-in for Adobe softwares. It’s worth giving try.

[Lasse Gjertsen]

"It would be great if you can talk about a few workflows where you find having more than five colors useful."

Gee, when in the world would it ever be useful with more than five colors? 🙈

I am making 2D animations for a kids show. I am working in Illustrator and After Effects.

I need to organize my colors in categories; some for characters, some for objects/vehicles/etc., some for the backgrounds in different themes/settings, etc. I would love to have my colors neatly organized in different groups; as a big color map to make it easier to keep my palette uniform during the production.

Five colors per group is therefore extremely limiting and impractical.

Also it would be very handy to be able to simply double click a color to copy the HEX values, since the eye dropper tool in AI and AE wont sample outside the program window.

I've spent hours now trying to find a good solution. Adobe Color is ALMOST there, but I won't use it because of this weird five-color-limit.

I've seen some online solutions, but I would like to be able to save my palette offline. I'm surprised at the lack of simple and practical solutions to this. What on earth are other designers doing?

[bucket]

As a UX designer, I'm not only creating a UIs for sites with a 5 color pallet but sometimes I'm required to intoduce user customization into my site/apps that allow the user to select their own color to represent a category. An example of this might be a calendar app where assigning unique colors to different calendars would be done by the user.  A range of colors that match the over all look and feel of the app/site is very appealing, even if choice is given to the user to select their own color. 

In any case, it would be nice to be able to generate more than a limiting 5 colors.  

Great app BTW. I use it all the time.

[Dazzer2473]

I am part of a team of designers working together across multiple clients with multiple colour palettes. I thought Adobe colour would be a great alternative to using libraries to share client colour specifications within a team and across multiple Adobe apps. However, it is restrictive in terms of the amount of colours that can be added as many of our clients have colour palettes that exceed 5 across primary and secondary brand colours. This could be very powerful in terms of being as design tool rather than a tool for inspiration only which seems limited and pointless.

[mr_miko]

I need more than five colors for the web site accahc.org

[Guest]

Hi

Kuler is very sensitive tool. It is really useful.

Thank you for hte input LucidLethargy.

[inc2000]

I thought it was 7. Lol