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Color swatches now global by default

Now when you create a color swatch, it’ll be a global swatch by default. This should make it easier to keep your palette consistent across your site.

Color swatches now global by default

<p>Keeping things consistent across your site can be hard. So we’re making that a bit easier today by making color swatches <a href="<https://webflow.com/blog/new-feature-global-swatches>" data-rt-link-type="external">global</a> by default, so that a change to that color swatch in one place affects all instances. This should also make applying and changing colors a bit faster.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="604px" style="max-width:604px"><div><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21c37e_color-swatches-by-global-default.gif>" alt="Color swatches: now global by default."></div><figcaption>Color swatches: now global by default.<br></figcaption></figure><p>Prefer to keep your swatches static? Simply uncheck the “global” checkbox and keep on keeping on.</p>


Launched on
August 28, 2018
Category
Designer

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