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title: "Colours and palettes"
description: "Save a hex code or a whole palette, copy colours in one click, and search your library by colour."
source: https://savepad.app/docs/colours-and-palettes
---
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# Colours and palettes

Save a hex code or a whole palette, copy colours in one click, and search your library by colour.

A brand purple, the five colours from a moodboard, that one green from a billboard. Save them as colours and they’re one search away.

## How to save colours

- **Paste a hex code**, like `#7A4AFB`, with ⌘V anywhere.
- **Paste several** separated by spaces, commas, or new lines, and you get a palette of up to 24 colours.
- **The save dialog**: press **N**, paste them, or pick **Colour**.

![Four hex codes pasted into Savepad and saved as a palette of four big swatches, with a Copy the gradient button](https://savepad.app/shots/four-hex-codes-pasted-into-savepad-and-saved-as-5a1996.png)

Paste hex codes and you get a palette.

## What you get

- Big swatches with their hex codes. Click one to copy it.
- **Copy the gradient** for a CSS gradient of the palette.

## Colours from everything else

You don’t have to save colours by hand to search by them. Savepad pulls the colours out of every image, and out of every link’s preview picture. Every list has a **Colour** button: pick a swatch and you only see saves with that colour in them. Or sort a folder **By colour** for rainbow order. [Search by colour](https://savepad.app/docs/search#search-by-colour) has the details.

Every [image](https://savepad.app/docs/images-and-screenshots) and [link](https://savepad.app/docs/links-and-web-pages) gets its colours pulled out too.