Finish schedule and export

Each color can carry a spec: what you'd put on a finish schedule. Fill the specs in, and the Schedule view lays the palette out as one.

Fill in a color's spec #

1. In the swatches view, open Spec at the bottom of a color's card.
2. Fill in any of the fields:
   • Tag, like "PT-3". Leave it blank to number the color automatically.
   • Manufacturer
   • Product: the product or color name.
   • Code: the product code or number.
   • Finish, like eggshell.
   • LRV (manufacturer's): the published light reflectance value.
   • Location / notes, like "corridor walls".

Every field is optional. Only what you type is kept: Color Lab has no built-in paint, Pantone or RAL library, and it never looks codes up.

The schedule view #

Click Schedule in the toolbar. The swatches give way to a table with one row per color, in the palette's order: Tag, Color, Manufacturer, Product, Code, Finish, LRV and Location / notes. Click Swatches to go back.

Blank tags number themselves PT-1, PT-2 and so on, in order. The LRV column shows only the manufacturer's value you typed, never the screen estimate.

Export #

Open Export ▾ in the toolbar. For how exports work in every tool, see Exports.

• Color Lab file (.colors.json): the whole palette. To get it back, click Import and pick the file. It opens as new work on this computer.
• CSS variables: a stylesheet with one variable per color. A color with a role is named by its role (--primary, --accent and so on); the rest are named after the color.
• JSON (for developers): the names, hex values, roles and specs.
• Finish schedule (CSV): the schedule's rows, for Excel.
• Finish schedule (Excel): the same schedule as an .xlsx workbook.

Every export from Color Lab is for the project's editors and your own work. Copying a hex from a swatch follows the same rule.

Related #

• Colors and brand roles
• Contrast checks
• Exports