<aside> 🤔 This is a first pass. I’d welcome any corrections or additional notes! -Toby
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Currently Cuttle’s default colors in the color picker are black, 50% gray, and white.
We’re thinking of adding more default colors to better support workflows into cutting tools. Alternatively we could have user-defined palettes or pre-made palettes you could choose depending on your cutting tool.
This document lists cutting tools and the colors that have meanings to them.
<aside> 🙏 Thank you to contributors: s-ol, cleversomeday, LayeredPaperArt, marzsman, JerseyMike, bwente
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Colors don’t have significance beyond distinguishing different actions.
In Design Space, stroke is always black, which makes any shape with black fill problematic (since you can’t see lines on it).
cleversomeday reports:
Cricut does not recognize stroke or stroke color. Everything in an imported SVG, regardless of fill color, defaults to Cut and has to be redesignated to the operation of choice. Pen Colors can also be chosen each item set to Pen Operation, so that the software prompts for the specific color initially and upon pen changes. Interestingly, Cricut had an internal coding scheme for assigning operations using SVG object ID's but this was terminated or changed not long after end users discovered it.
cleversomeday reports:
Sihouette Studio does not assign operations according to color on import, but users may assign any operation by Line Color or by Fill Color via the Send Panel. There is a tendency to use red for cut and blue for score, as well as representative pen colors, but this is a loose convention as any color can be assigned to any operation as shown in the screen shot.
https://support.shapertools.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002735794
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