Swatcheroo

Swatcheroo is your handy dandy swatch pal. That's, uh, short for 'palette.'

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Description

Photoshop's got it! Illustrator's got it! Animate's got it– and now AE's got it, too!

Swatcheroo is a super simple panel for applying, reading, and storing colours.

No clunky, slow, or weird expressions; no helper comps or other bloaty shortcuts.

Just colours.
Read Colours

Read Colours

Store your project's colours in Swatcheroo's swatches!

Apply Colours

Use Swatcheroo's swatches to colour your art!

Apply Colours
Swap Colours

Swap Colours

Strokes as Fills as Strokes!

Switch, with a flick.

Remove Colours

Who needs fills? And... strokes?! No thanks!

Remove Colours
Swatch History

Swatch History

Remember, remember, the sixth colour of your client's style guide.

Swatcheroo will remember the last swatch colours you've set, for easy access.

Or– lock specific swatches for later!

But Wait! There's More!

"Shape layers are so 2017"– I get it. Swatcheroo also works on text!

And footage! ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ʳᵉᵃˢᵒⁿ

Text Layers

Discussions

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Version History

1.1.3 -

Fixed
- Weird behaviours with locked history swatches
- Crash when trying to reset prefs from launch hotkey
- Crash in non-English installs of AE

1.1.2 -

Changed
- Improved error handling

Fixed
- Error when saving preferences

1.1.1 -

Fixed

• Bug when setting additional rows

1.1.0 -

Added
• SHIFT & CLICK shortcut to APPLY COLOUR
• Option to set # OF HISTORY ROWS
• Option to DELETE REMOVED COLOUR (vs disabling it)
• Useful helptip info to locked swatches for unlocking

Changed
• REMOVE COLOUR shortcut is now CMD/CTRL & CLICK
• Updated default colours to be more visually pleasing
• Improved 'locked history swatch' indicator

Fixed
• Colour picker messing with 'undo'
• Error when setting colour on animated text & footage

1.0.0 -

Initial release!

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6