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Colors — your shop palette, your customers' brand colors, and the full Wraptones library

Who it's for

Designers reach for Colors constantly — to grab a customer's exact brand colors, pull a shop house color, or browse the Wraptones library for the right vinyl shade. The owner or manager curates the shop's standard palette. Production staff use the CMYK and Pantone values to match prints. It's the single source of truth for "what color is that, exactly?"

Where it fits

Colors supports the design and production stages — choosing and matching colors before and during a wrap. See workflow-map.md and personas.md.

Overview

The Colors screen has three tabs, each a different kind of color library:

  • Shop Colors — your shop's own house palette. The colors you use again and again, each with a name, hex value, CMYK breakdown, and an optional Pantone reference. Fully editable.
  • Brand Colors — colors saved against specific customers. When you do repeat work for a business, you store their exact brand colors here so every job matches. Organized by customer.
  • Wraptones — a large built-in catalog of named wrap colors (thousands of them) with hex and CMYK values, grouped by color family. Search it, mark favorites, and export selected colors as a swatch file you can load into your design software.

Every color shows a swatch and copyable values, so matching and reusing colors is quick and accurate.

Screens & navigation

Colors (/colors) Reach it from the top navigation under Production → Colors, or from the mobile navigation. The screen opens on the Shop Colors tab. Switching tabs updates the page address so you can link straight to a specific tab.

  • Shop Colors tab — a grid of your shop's saved colors. Add, edit, and delete colors; copy a color's values.
  • Brand Colors tab — customer brand colors. Pick (or pre-select) a customer and add their brand colors. Search across all saved brand colors and copy values.
  • Wraptones tab — the full Wraptones catalog. Search by name, filter by color family (reds, blues, neutrals, etc.), favorite the ones you use, and download selected colors as a swatch file.

Capabilities

Shop Colors

  • Add a color: name, hex, CMYK (C/M/Y/K), and an optional Pantone code.
  • Edit any saved shop color.
  • Delete a shop color.
  • Copy a color's hex (and other values) to paste into your design tools.
  • Colors keep a defined display order.

Brand Colors

  • Add a brand color tied to a specific customer (name, hex, CMYK, optional Pantone).
  • Browse all customers' brand colors in one place, grouped by customer.
  • Search brand colors.
  • Copy values.

Brand colors and brand assets (logos, etc.) for a customer are also managed from that customer's record. The Colors screen gives you a shop-wide view and a fast way to add them.

Wraptones

  • Browse a built-in library of thousands of named wrap colors.
  • Search by name.
  • Filter by color family (reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, pinks, neutrals).
  • Mark favorites for quick access.
  • Select colors and download an ASE swatch file to import into Adobe and other design software.

Step-by-step tasks

  1. Add a color to your shop palette

    1. Open Colors and stay on the Shop Colors tab.
    2. Click Add.
    3. Enter a name, set the hex value (or CMYK), and add a Pantone code if you have one.
    4. Save. The color appears in your shop grid.

  2. Save a customer's brand colors

    1. Open Colors and switch to the Brand Colors tab.
    2. Start a new brand color and choose the customer it belongs to.
    3. Enter the color name, hex/CMYK, and optional Pantone.
    4. Save. The color is filed under that customer and will be available on their jobs.

  3. Find and export Wraptones for a design

    1. Open Colors and switch to the Wraptones tab.
    2. Search by name or filter to a color family.
    3. Click the colors you want to select them (and star any you use often).
    4. Download the selected colors as a swatch file and import it into your design app.

  4. Copy a color value to match a print

    1. Open the relevant tab (Shop, Brand, or Wraptones).
    2. Find the color and copy its hex or CMYK values.
    3. Paste into your RIP or design software to match.

Settings & permissions

Who can see and use Colors

The Colors screen is available to roles with the Colors permission. By default that's the Manager, Designer, and Production roles. The Installer role does not have it by default; add the Colors permission to a role in Settings → Team if needed.

Plan availability

The color libraries are part of the standard toolset — there's no separate purchase to use Shop Colors, Brand Colors, or Wraptones.

Tips & common pitfalls

  • Three libraries, three purposes. Shop Colors = your house palette; Brand Colors = a specific customer's colors; Wraptones = the master catalog. Save a customer's brand color under Brand Colors (not Shop Colors) so it stays tied to them.
  • CMYK and Pantone are for matching. Fill them in when you know them — they're what production uses to match a print, not just the on-screen hex.
  • Wraptones is read-only. You can favorite and export from Wraptones, but you can't edit catalog entries. To make a Wraptones color your own, add it to Shop Colors or a customer's Brand Colors.
  • Export, then import. The Wraptones download is a standard swatch (ASE) file — bring it into your design software's swatches panel to use the exact colors.
  • Brand colors live with the customer too. If you can't find a brand color here, check the customer's record; the two views share the same data.
  • Customers — brand colors and brand assets are tied to customer records.
  • Studio — design work that uses these colors.
  • Inventory — physical vinyl stock; your color choices map to the rolls you keep.
  • Jobs — the work where color matching matters.
  • Workflow map — where color selection fits the lifecycle.
  • Personas — who uses Colors.