# Export custom color palette

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-custom-color-palette/14167
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-custom-color-palette/14167 "2024-03-15T13:11:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/charles_gueunet/32/40_2.png) [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-custom-color-palette/14167/1 "2024-03-15T13:11:45Z")

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I think it could be nice to have an “Export palette” option to save custom color palette.

Contexte:  
I often use a lot of states, for generating blog / article illustrations or for debugging a filter. Unfortunately, as I have a dark-themed ParaView, I have to switch to white background to generate illustrations and doing so I loose my custom dark color palette. In addition, I loose this palette whenever I load a state corresponding to such use case too (except if I kill ParaView not properly).

I am not sure how to address the fact that loading a state and then closing ParaView may break my carefully tuned theme, but I would like a way to export it so I can recover my custom color palette when needed. Something similar to exporting a colormap but for the palette would be great.

@nicolas.vuaille @mwestphal @cory.quammen

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-custom-color-palette/14167/2 "2024-03-15T17:21:49Z")

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I actually like this idea. Maybe we could create one more palette, turned off by default, called something like custom?