: Set default color model for color palette In Illustrator's Swatch palette's options, my swatches are set to color type: process color, color mode: rgb, and they're global. Whenever I click these

@Angie364

Unfortunately there is no way to set this as a default with the current Illustrator version.

You can change the document color model to either RGB or CMYK, but HSB isn't technically a "color model", but is more of an abstraction.

There are a few workarounds you can try to streamline your workflow.


A "saving time" way to do this, is to click on the Color Spectrum Bar while holding down the Shift button.
This will change the color scheme between all of them.





Another solution if you are working with gradients would be to
Set the 'Color' panel to HSB mode.

Keep the 'Color' panel and 'Gradient' panel both in view.

Now, when you click a color on your gradient spectrum, you can modify the color with HSB model in the 'Color' panel. (This means no need to double-click the gradient color swatch that annoyingly opens to default RGB color picker

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