Persistent color picker (when unpinned from right panel)

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There have been many times where I’m trying to compare the color values between two or more objects. However, every time I select another object the color panel disappears so I have to click on the swatch again and try to remember the values from the previous object. Sometimes I’ll just take a screenshot of the color picker values and paste them back into Figma but that’s not fun at all.

One possible solution would be to make the color picker remain visible if the user ‘unpins’ it (ie. drags it away from the right panel). Then they could select the next object to see the color values and then close the picker when they’re done.

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Pinned Reply By djv

Hey All, thank you so much for your continued feedback on this!

I completely understand how implementing this capability would improve your workflows. To be transparent, while this is on the team’s radar, they haven’t made much progress since working on the color picker updates that shipped last year. It was scoped and discussed, but pinning the picker open turned out to be a bigger technical lift than that work could absorb, so it was ultimately not included.

I don’t have an exact timeline to share, but I’ll be sure to come back to this thread if/when we have a more concrete update. Please keep adding your specific workflows; concrete examples of where this costs you time are the most useful thing for us to carry forward.

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Green_Scotty

+1 Please fix this! It would save so much time building color palettes.

Robyn_Hines

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Building a color palette to add to a mood board is too time-consuming, I also +1 this request!

Howard6

+1 I really need this right now too 😭

H

Hida

Let’s say the forbidden words: Adobe does it well, in InDesign and Illustrator. Please adopt “keeping the menus open” idea.
The Ctrl+C was a nice tip folks, thank you.

I also suffer from a somewhat similar problem with the Effects menu. But right now I am working on Colours for the design system and this is really getting on my nerves, hence I found this thread 😁