Introducing the Tangerine Color Picker

The Tangerine Color Picker is designed to seamlessly integrate into Apple's Colors panel. The Colors panel is used by hundreds of applications in OS X to choose and apply colors within an application. You can use the Tangerine Color Picker to access the colors and palettes managed by Tangerine.

While the Tangerine Color Picker has a similar appearance to the Palette window it does not incorporate all the capabilities of the Palette window.

Tangerine Color Picker (inside OS X Colors Panel)

The Input Button

The Input button adds a color to the displayed palette. The Tangerine Color Picker does not allow identical colors to be added to a palette – the Input button will be disabled if the color already exists in the palette. Furthermore, colors with a transparency or an alpha channel are added to palettes as opaque colors. For more information see Using Tangerine Color Picker to Add Colors.

Palette Title Bar

The Palette Title
This displays the title of the displayed palette. For more information see Renaming Palette Titles.

Previous Palette Button
The previous Palette button (arrow pointing to the left) displays the previous palette in the Palette window.

Next Palette Button
The next palette button (arrow pointing to the right) displays the next palette in the Palette window.

Palette Title Bar Pop-up Menu
The palette title bar pop-up menu contains the following menu items:

• New: Creates a new palette. For more information see Adding and Removing Palettes.
• Rename: Renames the palette title of the displayed palette. For more information see Renaming Palette Titles.
• Remove: Removes the displayed palette from Tangerine. For more information see Adding and Removing Palettes.

The remaining items in the pop-up menu are Tangerine palette titles, which when selected, are displayed in the palette of the Tangerine Color Picker.

The Palette and Color Swatches

The palette area displays all color swatches contained in a palette. Color swatches provide a visual representation of a color. You click a swatch to set the color of the swatch in the Colors panel.

Naming Swatches
You can name color swatches to help you identify them or remind you of the context in which they were used. For more information see Naming Color Swatches.

Swatch Contextual Menus
Each color swatch has a contextual menu that provides the following options:

• Copy to…: Copies the swatch to another palette. For more information see Copying Color Swatches to Palettes.
• Move to…: Moves the swatch to another palette. For more information see Moving Color Swatches between Palettes.
• Trash: Removes the swatch from the palette and places it in the Trash. For more information see Moving a Color Swatch to the Trash.

You display a swatch's contextual menu by clicking the swatch while simultaneously holding down the 'control' key.

Swatch Positions
Color swatches can be repositioned within a palette by dragging and dropping them to new locations.