Color Wheel, Color Bar & Swatches

Three dockable windows keep color at hand while you paint, instead of a popup you have to reopen for every change. Open them from the Window menu: Color - Wheel, Color - Bar and Swatches. Each is its own window, so you can dock, float or close them independently — keep just the one you like, or both color windows side by side.

Color - Wheel and Color - Bar

The two windows differ only in how you pick: Color - Wheel has a hue ring around a saturation/value triangle, Color - Bar a saturation/value square beside a vertical hue bar. Both edit the same color — the brush's foreground color, the Color / Albedo channel's color — so a change in one shows in the other at once. The picking area grows to fill whatever size you give the window.

Control	What it does
Current	The color the brush paints now.
Original	The color as it was before the change you are making. Click it to go back to that color — a quick undo for an exploratory drag across the wheel or bar. Shared by both windows.
RGB, HSV and hex rows	Three value rows across the window's full width, all showing the same color: red/green/blue, hue/saturation/value, and the hex code. Type or drag a value to set the color exactly. Each row also carries the color's alpha.
Under brush	A read-only readout of the color under the brush crosshair and its R, G, B values (0–255), shown while the brush is over the model in Paint or Sculpt mode. It is not clickable, and appears only when the window has spare height below the value rows.

The background color is not in these windows: it sits next to the foreground color, with a swap button, in the Colors row of Brush Color Dynamics — see Brushes & Brush Dynamics.

Swatches

The Swatches window holds a row of recent colors and two color libraries. Click any swatch to make it the current brush color. Swatches set red, green and blue only; opacity is a brush setting and is left as it is.

Recent colors

The row across the top holds your last 12 colors, newest on the left; when it is full, the oldest drops off the right. A color is added when you finish a pick in either color window (when you let go of the mouse, so one long drag adds one color, not every hue it passed through), when you click any swatch, including a library one, when you set the Color / Albedo swatch, and when you pick with the eyedropper. Empty cells show until you have picked enough colors to fill them.

Quick Colors and Shades

Below the row are two expanding sections; one is open at a time. Hover any library swatch to see its name and hex code.

Section	What it holds
Quick Colors	A fixed palette of common colors: six steps each of red, yellow, lime, green, cyan, blue, purple and pink, plus white and five grays.
Shades	Named shades sorted into families — Blues, Browns, Grays, Greens, Oranges, Pinks, Reds, Violets, Whites and Yellows — each its own section inside Shades, again one open at a time.