Configure Color Palettes for Embroidery

A color palette defines the range of colors used to color designs for decorating products on your website. For your convenience, several pre-defined industry-standard embroidery palettes are available, featuring a broad selection of thread colors commonly used in the embroidery industry. These palettes provide popular and reliable color options, saving you time by offering established choices and minimizing the need for custom color matching.

Additionally, fulfillment centers can create embroidery palettes tailored to their specific equipment and business needs. For embroidery, the default palette is a customizable copy of the PolyNeon 40 (Madeira) palette. Configured palettes will be accessible through the Online Designer, allowing customers to choose from available thread colors. If a design includes a color not in the current palette, DecoNetwork will automatically match it to the closest available palette color to maintain color consistency.

Watch the following video for instructions on how to configure color palettes for embroidery.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature

To configure a color palettes for embroidery:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork website.
2. Browse to Admin.
   
3. Select Decoration Processes.
   
4. Click on the Embroidery menu item.

    

5. Select Color Palettes.

   

   The main work area contains the settings which can be configured for embroidery color palettes:

   
6. Configure the color palettes as required.

   Add Palette

   The Add Palette button lets you create a new color palette to be available to customers on your website. The Add Palette popup will be displayed when you click on the button.

   
   • Use System Palette makes predefined thread color palettes available for use without further configuration. Embroidery has several industry-standard palettes available and can be selected from the Base palettes used dropdown box. From here, select the specific palettes to load.
   • Create empty palette will create an empty palette in the palette list which you can later edit. Give the palette a name and click OK.
   • Copy existing palette will make a copy of a selected palette and it will be named as per your entry into the Name box. Select a palette from the Palette dropdown box.

   Import Palette

   Clicking on the Import Palette button will load the import settings, allowing you to import an existing color palette for customers to use on your website.

   

   Due to licensing requirements, DecoNetwork is not able to distribute many industry-standard palettes, but these can often be found with a bit of Googling! If you find a good one you want to use, save it to your device then click Import Palette.

   • Palette source

     CSV files are used to import color palettes for raster or vector designs.

     Embroiderers may select Wilcom .TCH thread chart files to import embroidery color palettes. The expected columns for a TCH file are Code, Palette Name, Color Name, A, Red value (0-255), Green value (0-255), Blue value (0-255). Example:

     1	2005,Marathon Poly,Neon Yellow,A,250,230,16
     2	2006,Marathon Poly,Neon Gold,A,252,201,161
     3	2007,Marathon Poly,Neon Orange,A,254,119,88
     4	2008,Marathon Poly,Neon Pink,A,237,181,199
     5	2009,Marathon Poly,Salmon,A,245,173,173
     6	2010,Marathon Poly,Electric Blue,A,20,170,208

   • Import Options refer to the name you will give your palette and source file for the import.

   Palette Options

   
   • Allow color slider in color picker window sets the availability of a sliding color picker tool in the Online Designer, allowing the customer to pick custom colors for their decorations. If the checkbox is ticked on, the following options determining when the color slider will be displayed are shown:

     • All Stores allows you to make the color slider available to every store in your DecoNetwork system. If the checkbox is unchecked, the Select Store link will become active, allowing you to choose which specific stores can access the color slider.

       

       Clicking on the Select Stores link opens the Select Stores popup.

       
       • Open the Color Palette first if the current color is a palette color: this option will show the color palette when the color picker window is first open if the currently selected color is a palette color.
       • Always open the Color Palette first: this option will always show the color palette first when the color picker window is open.
       • Always open the Color Slider first: this option will always show the color slider first when the color picker window is open.

   Managing Palettes

   The Palettes section shows a list of existing palettes This includes system palettes and custom palettes you have added previously.

   

   Click Manage next to the palette you wish to work on.

   
   

   You may either:

   • Edit the palette, which allows you to select the default color and, for custom palettes, add new colors, rename existing colors, specify color codes and RGB values, and remove any colors you don't want to offer to your customers.
   • Rename the palette.
   • Delete the palette.

   Palette Availability

   The All Stores checkbox allows you to make the color palette available to every store in your DecoNetwork system. If the checkbox is not selected, the Select Store link becomes available allowing you to choose which specific stores can access the color palette.

   

   Clicking on the Select Stores link opens the Select Stores popup.

   
7. When you are done, click Save.