Arts & Crafts Color Palette for EQ6

Anonymous Wrote:

Having no luck finding any kind of Arts & Crafts color palette for use
with EQ6, I assembled/built my own. Searching the web for a palette
was difficult enough - the only decent one I found (If anyone knows of
others, please drop me a line & let me know) was the Sherwin-Williams
Roycroft Arts & Crafts Palette. Fortunately, they also have a utility
for viewing/playing with these colors that gives their RGB values.
Thinking ahead, instead of just transposing the RGB values directly
into EQ6, I first entered them into an Excel spreadsheet, including
shading sample cells for each color (I just KNOW I'm going to be glad
I did this later... )

The next step was creating a project notebook in EQ6, and deleting all
the default colors in the palette in that notebook (starting with a
blank slate, so to speak). This is a tedious process; colors seem to
be the only notebook items that can't be deleted by range (Note: EQ
guys) - you have to delete each of the 300+ colors individually.
Annoying, but doable in a few minutes.

Thinking ahead again, I realized it's obvious that, though not
specifically in the palette, black, white, and several intermediate
shades of gray will be useful, so I began by adding those colors
(black & white are left by default, and I added the grays by adding
the "shades & tints" between the black & white color tiles. Shade &
tint values for either black or white are exactly the same, so it
doesn't matter which one is used.) Then I added in the S-W A&C colors
(there are 34 of them) by hand from the RGB values I put into the
spreadsheet. The entire process took a couple hours, but I think
it'll be worth it.

Now, when I want to design a quilt using only the colors in the S-W
A&C palette, I can do so without searching through a huge spectrum and
trying to figure out which colors are which. I could have left the
default palette alone and just added the A&C colors on the end (or
even sorted them to the front of the line) but going to the end each
time, or sorting with EQ is a real pain... (Note again: EQ guys)

Now I can keep that alternate A&C palette and add new colors on to it
when desired. The only drawback I've found so far (and reason TO add
colors as needed over time) is that all the colors in the S-W palette
are pretty drab/subdued, as they're meant for wall paint - not
quilts. But if you use those colors in decorating, wouldn't it be
nice to have lapquilts, hangings, pillows, etc. color-coordinated with
your room? ;-)

Finding fabrics that match those colors is another issue, but hey...
I'm off to the races!

Oh, the possibilities... THE POSSIBILITIES...