Loading Colour, Gradient, and Hatching Palettes

You can use LibreOffice extensions to add colour palettes, gradients lists, or hatching patterns lists.

To load a colour palette:

Directly from the Extension Manager

If you have a custom palette available as an extension, use the Extension Manager to load the palette in LibreOffice:

1. Open the Extension Manager.

2. Click Add

3. Select the extension file (usually a file with oxt file extension)

4. Click OK. You will be asked to restart LibreOffice.

From the Area dialogue box

Loading colour palettes from the Area dialogue box brings a dialogue box with all colour palettes available in the LibreOffice Extension Website.

1. Choose Format - Area, and then click the Colours tab.

2. Click the Add colour palette via extensions button. A dialogue box with all available colour palettes in the LibreOffice extension site will appear.

3. Locate the colour list that you want to load, and then click Install.

4. Close the Extension dialogue box. You will be asked to restart LibreOffice.

About the Default Colour palettes:

The freieFarbe HLC color list is based on the CIELAB model and is optimised for professional CMYK printing.

The colours in the Compatibility and HTML palettes are optimised for displays using a resolution of 256 colours.

The palettes “LibreOffice” and “Material” contain the official LibreOffice and Material Design palettes respectively.

The "tonal" palette provides a set of colours organised by luminance contrast that work across different hardware.

To load a gradient and hatching palette: