Naming Colors Effect on Color Palette

[amoore]

Yes, I think you're on the right track.

Also note that, AFAIK, to work the way you're talking about with the car colors, the named colors have to be "shades" of the given hue or base color.

[BexarPuma]

That's why I warned that I was oversimplifying! (Re the "shades".)

I am thinking that saving named colors is like saving a brush in Xara. You don't save to a brush folder, you save to a document. Then, to use the brush, you open that document. (I have made one brush in Xara, and I had a black outline on the shapes in it. When I drew with the brush, the black outlines showed, but if I released the stroke, the outlines disappeared. I got around this by doing a screen shot of the stroke before releasing it. Worked, but I had to get rid of the resulting white background before I could use the stroke. Of course, I had not read carefully enough, and didn't save the document with the new brush stroke. I'll know better next time!)

Lynn