New Apple color, Gray

TextEdit has 2 amazing and customer sensitive color tools, the Color Bar found in the menu bar (click to open) and the Color Panel opened by pressing ⌘⇧C (cmd-shift-C). The Color Panel has 5 control buttons near the top with the middle button hover hinting Color Palettes. Clicking the Color Palettes button opens a Color Panel view with a top bar selection where clicking on a gear control or just clicking the top drop-bar select options include Apple option. Clicking the Apple option causes the Color Panel Palettes button to display 11 Apple colors.


When my Mac Pro was new none of the Color Bar's 12 top row Apple colors were actual Color Panel pencil colors. Each year, another Color Bar top row color is added to my Mac's Color Panel Pencil view. These additions do not change pencil appearance. These additions change the hex value of another Apple color pencil to exactly match the hex value of an Apple Color. Each year yet another Color Panel pencil is empowered by becoming an exact Apple Color. My Mac has 8 Apple colors and 3 coming. Thank you, Apple!


Black=Licorice Blue=Blueberry Brown=n/a Cyan=Turquoise Green=Spring Magenta=Magenta Orange=n/a Purple=n/a Red=Maraschino Yellow=Lemon White=Snow


In 3 more years, Apple's Brown, Orange, Purple get super-fast color development 'Pencil' status. No more 'unnamed' hex test track-racks in 900 days! Apple reliability is fantastic. Question...


We know about the "Unnamed" option beside Color Panel's Apple option. Ignore 'unnamed'. What we want is to add another Apple color. Gray.


Mac Pro, macOS 12.7

Posted on May 24, 2025 03:21 AM

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Posted on May 24, 2025 09:17 AM

Orange is the same Hex value as the "Tangerine" pencil,

and Purple differs from "Plum" by exactly one unit in the blue value (red and green match exactly)....

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May 25, 2025 03:45 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Apple Colors color panel Palettes choice 'Apple' color list is not editable, System Library.


Also cannot edit files in /Users/mark/Library/Colors. You can backup and restore. Which can easily restore what is good.


Delete the files in /Users/username/Library/Colors. Close and re-open TextEdit. Press cmd-shift-C. This rebuilds default files and colors in /Users/mark/Library/Colors.


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