Enhancing Coloring Features in Board

Sergi Fernández

This post groups several ideas aimed at improving color functionalities in Board to create a more efficient and user-friendly design experience.

Color Wheel & Eye Dropper

One significant enhancement would be transforming the eyedropper icon in the color picker into a true eyedropper tool, enabling users to select colors directly from their screen. Additionally, incorporating a color wheel alongside this functionality would offer more versatile options for choosing the right shade.

Color Shades

Another key improvement is the introduction of a shading system within the color picker. This feature would display various shades of a selected color, allowing users to easily pick lighter or darker variations without needing to leave the Board interface. As at the moment, designers often rely on external tools. E.g.:

Chart Color Themes - Custom Palettes & Preview

Furthermore, while chart objects currently offer predefined color themes (such as Arctic and Windows 8), providing administrators the ability to customize these themes with their own color palettes would enhance flexibility.

Alongside this customization, displaying the specific colors included in each palette from the dropdown would make it clearer which colors make up each palette, as the names aren’t always intuitive. This would give users a better understanding of each palette's look before applying it, ensuring they pick the most suitable one for their design without having to loop through each palette.

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It's worth mentioning that other ideas related to the identity manager and color palettes are already accepted and on the roadmap. Although we've been waiting for updates on these, I'm referencing them, hoping to help reinforce the need for further enhancements to color functionalities in Board.

1. Upload custom colour palette — Board Community
2. Corporate Identity Designer — Board Community
3. Default Formatting for Dataviews and Other Objects — Board Community
4. corporate identity: add custom color palette, custom chart color theme, pin recent color — Board Community

ShivDookhoo

Also, additional effects that can be added to objects like:

• Drop Shadow
• Inner Shadow
• Background Blur

Will complement these colour enhancements.

Sergi Fernández

These would be nice additions! Thank you