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title: "Color Palette Extension | Airtable Support"
slug: "color-palette-extension"
updated: 2025-06-22T01:42:14Z
published: 2025-06-24T15:00:05Z
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# Color palette extension

| **Plan Availability** | All paid plans |
| --- | --- |
| **Permissions** | - **Owners** / **Creators** - Can create, delete, and modify extensions - **Editors** - Can edit the configuration of previously configured extensions |
| **Platform(s)** | Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app |

## Adding a color palette extension

The Color palette extension allows you to pull HEX, RGB or HSL codes and color names from your base and turn them into a palette. You can also copy each color code type into your clipboard, allowing seamless collaboration between teams.

![Screen Shot 2017-10-11 at 1.37.28 PM](https://cdn.airtable.document360.io/d0ee2ee4-3f78-47c7-b388-85e40be9fb89/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-11%20at%201.37.28%20PM.png)

To add a color palette extension:

1. Open your [Airtable home screen](https://airtable.com/).
2. Create or open the base where you want to install the color palette extension.
3. Click **Tools** in the upper-right corner.
4. Click the **Extensions** option.
5. Click **Add an extension**.
6. Search for and locate the color palette extension.
7. Click **Add**, then **Add** **extension.**

## Setting up a color palette extension

1. To use the color palette extension, you need a field containing names for your swatches, and a field containing color codes. The color codes can be HEX, RGB, or HSL. ![Screen Shot 2017-10-17 at 6.20.30 PM](https://cdn.airtable.document360.io/d0ee2ee4-3f78-47c7-b388-85e40be9fb89/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-17%20at%206.20.30%20PM.png)
2. When you install your color palette extension, you'll automatically get brought to the new extension's settings page. From here, you can specify the appropriate Table and View, the “Name field” for your swatch names, and the field for your color codes.

![Screen Shot 2017-10-17 at 6.25.39 PM](https://cdn.airtable.document360.io/d0ee2ee4-3f78-47c7-b388-85e40be9fb89/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-17%20at%206.25.39%20PM.png)
3. Once you are happy with the color palette extension’s settings, click **Done**.
4. When viewing the live version of your extension in the extensions panel or the fullscreen dashboard, you can click on any color's RGB, HEX, or HSL code to copy that code to your clipboard.

## FAQs

**Does this extension support gradient colors?**

No, gradient colors are not supported with the color palette extension.