Keyboard shortcuts

Space replaces every unlocked color with a new one; holding it down does not repeat. L locks or unlocks a color and C copies its hex code. Both act on the color you reached last, by pointer or by keyboard focus, so you can hover over a swatch and press L without clicking it. Locked colors survive Space and keep their place.

Cmd+Z undoes on a Mac and Ctrl+Z elsewhere; add Shift to redo. History keeps 100 steps: new palettes, edits, reordering and the overrides of Site colours. Locking and unlocking are not steps, so undoing a new palette never unlocks what you just locked. More on what the URL and history keep is in the URL format.

Tab reaches the palette strip; Left and Right then move the focus from color to color. Shift+Left and Shift+Right move the focused color itself one place, and the focus goes with it. Because swatch 1 takes the page's main color, moving a color to the front changes which part of the page it paints, as Strength, neutral tint and overrides explains.

Each color also has a drag handle. Focus it and press Space or Enter to pick the color up, move it with the arrows, and press Space or Enter again to drop it, or Esc to put it back. On a touch screen, or when a swatch is too narrow for its buttons, the menu on each swatch holds every action, Move left and Move right included.

Enter in the address field loads the page, as Loading a page describes. Once a page is shown, clicking into it gives it the keyboard, and Recolor still hears Space and Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z: the engine inside the page passes them on. A text field on the page keeps its keys, and a page button you reached with Tab keeps Space for itself, as it would on the site.

In an open menu Up and Down move, and in the Export panel Left and Right move between the format tabs. Esc closes the menu, panel or dialog that opened last and gives the focus back to the button that opened it. ? opens the list of shortcuts. The panels themselves are described in Export formats and How Recolor repaints a page.

Shortcuts wait while you type: in the address field, the hex field of Adjust or the asset base URL, Space types a space and Cmd+Z undoes your typing. They also wait while a menu, panel or dialog has the focus, and during a drag. A button you reached with the keyboard keeps Space, because Space presses buttons; one you clicked gives it back, so clicking Undo and then pressing Space generates as expected.