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I have a lot of empty swatch squares. Can I delete some of them?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.5
You can adjust the size of the Color Picker window as a whole, but also the size of the swatch area. It may be a little difficult to hit the correct point, but you can drag that thin line up or down, effectively hiding these extra rows (or adding more!).
Oops! You meant the unused boxes. In that case, I doubt it. The person who wrote that code decided how many pre-determined palette boxes there would be.
It's done in what is probably the most unintuitive gesture in macOS.
Click and hold on the color you want to remove. Drag it to the trash. That is, the same trash you would use to delete files or folders.
Yep, just discovered that. Thanks for the effort anyway. The problem is that sometimes I have many more than needed and other times I open it, there are only a few and that's manageable. Thanks, again.
Excellent find! Another highly unintuitive option.
I tried that just now, and the least number of rows it will allow you to collapse down to is two.
And that may be only if a given bottom row is empty. I didn't fill up a bunch of squares to see if you could hide rows that are used.
Delete empty color swatches from Color Picker
