

The color palette floats next to the main window. The palette shows the colors associated with the currently active window. Palettes for inactive windows are hidden, and the colors displayed in the palette change when the active window changes.
Two larger color squares at the top of the palette panel represent the active colors which will be applied if you click or drag the mouse in warp or weft color bars. The left square is the main color, applied by single click of the mouse. The right square is the alternative color, and is applied by double click. You can also use Option-single click as a substitute for double click, or if you have a two button mouse, single right click.
At right are palettes of 42 and 82 colors in two columns of smaller color patches below the two active colors. A palette is made up of two base colors associated with keys - and + that appear at the top of the two columns of color patches, plus one or more Color Groups. The base colors are normally white and black. These can be changed if necessary, but it's usually better to leave them as is.
Color palettes are saved with design files, and will be reloaded when you reopen the design.
Color Groups
A color group is a set of 40 colors which can replace or add to the colors in an existing palette, to a maximum of 6 color groups for 242 colors. There are 10 predefined color groups built into Fiberworks. In addition you can create and save your own color groups representing your favorite colors or the yarns on your shelf. Color groups are saved separately from designs, and can be combined into new color palettes to be used with new designs.
Creating a new palette from color groups
The menu item Colors, Open New Color Group allows you to select color groups from the list of available groups, either to replace or to expand an existing palette. Each new group becomes an additional column of color patches in the palette. In general, very large palettes make it more difficult to find the colors that you actually need, and palettes of 42 or 82 are easier to work with.
Palette colors can be rearranged by dragging colors from one patch to another. This lets you start with a large palette, drag all the colors that you want to use to the leftmost columns, and then discard the rightmost columns with the unwanted colors.