: How to share Global Colors in Sketch App? I am trying to share a very extensive color palette that I have created in "Global Colors" in a Sketch file. I need to share this with a coworker,

@Jessie844

There is actually a way to export colors as a file from machine to machine. Since Sketch uses MacOS for doing this, you can do it by the following:
In Finder, hold down the Option key, then click Go > Libraries. You should see your color palettes listed as documents [your palette name].clr. These files can then shared, and imported on other machines by opening Sketch (or other apps using the MacOS colors like Keynote), and clicking the settings gear, and choosing Open.

This way, you don't have to worry about manually adding the colors back in.

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@Cody3331749

The Brand.ai Sketch plugin enables you to share not only global colors, but also your text styles, layer styles and symbols with your team.

You simply add your palette to the cloud, and all team members who have the plugin can use the colors in their local documents.

If you make any changes to your elements, Brand.ai pushes the changes instantly to everyone who's using the plugin, so your team is guaranteed to use the most recent styles.

For more details, check out the blog series "How to share a design system in Sketch".



Disclosure: I am the Co-Founder and CEO of this plugin.

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@Marchetta832

The easiest way that I found is to just take 10 minutes and
1) create swatches on an art board in your source document with every color you'd like to include.
2) copy all of the swatches those swatches
3) paste to destination document
4) on by one you add the colors of the swatches to your document colors panel

You'll assure accuracy and it wont take much time.

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@Dunderdale640

There is a new plugin, Sketch Palettes, that lets you save and import palettes to/from sketch documents.

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@Carla748

Sketch’s preferences can be found in:
~Library/Containers/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Data/Library/Preferences/

The global color swatches should be in there somewhere. I’m not sure which file or portion of the file you'll need to copy. I have another solution though.



Using a screenshot inside your Sketch documents

If you take a screenshot of the Global Colors popover and drag it into your Sketch documents, you can sample directly from it. It’s a bit of a hack, but it works.





Using another Sketch document

You could use a Sketch document as your master style guide, and store it on a server somewhere. You’ll probably want to lock the document in the Finder, to ensure it can’t be edited easily.





Using the OS X Color Picker’s image tab

This solution has some color profile issues, due to the way the OS X Color Picker. Please see comments for more info.

1. Take a screenshot of your Global Colors popover.





2. Open up the OS X Color Picker in any app (View → Show Colors in Sketch).



3. Change to the image tab and drag your screenshot in.





4. You can now sample colours from the image in the OS X Color Picker.



So, you can give someone else your Global Colors by sending them a screenshot. It’s not ideal, but it does work.

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