Edit a palette in Dottie on Mac

Add and edit colours

• Add: click the dashed “+” chip at the end of the palette.

• Edit: double-click a chip (or choose Edit from its context menu) to open the colour picker. Edits preview live—every pixel already painted with that colour updates as you adjust it—and commit as a single undo step when you close the picker.

• Remove: choose Remove from the context menu. Colours in use on the canvas can’t be removed.

• Reorder: drag chips (in Manual sort mode).

Build shades and ramps

The chip context menu has shortcuts for building tonal ranges:

• Duplicate, Duplicate Darker, Duplicate Lighter—quick single-step shades.
• Generate Gradient—fill the chips between two colours with evenly stepped blends. Hold Option for Generate HSV Gradient, which travels through hue rather than straight RGB.

Gradient generation skips protected colours, so mark ramp endpoints as protected to keep them fixed.

See also

• Choose colours and palettes in Dottie on Mac
• Shift colours along a palette ramp in Dottie on Mac
• Protect colours in Dottie on Mac