Sync a color palette to the local library

Learn how to synchronize your color palette with local styles and variables, enabling its publication across documents and workspaces.

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Sync to the local styles

Creating and updating local styles is only available in the /pro plan.

The shades/tints are grouped by source colors, from the darkest to the lightest. If any Color modes have been created, the groups will be gathered and named with their related color theme. In addition, if the palette has a custom name, every group is gathered into one with the palette name.

Once the palette is ready, click the Sync with the local styles button to add every color shade/tint to the document's local styles. These styles can be published in the Team Library.

If you update the palette after adding its shades/tints to the local styles, you can click the Sync with the local styles button to update the styles that have been edited. The synchronization is not on both sides because you cannot update your palette from the local styles.

The synchronization with the local styles is not deep by default, so the styles that do not match the shade/tint of your palette will remain. Read more about the Preferences.

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Sync to the local variables

Creating and updating local variables is only available in the /pro plan.

The shades/tints are grouped by source colors, from the darkest to the lightest. If any Color modes have been created, the groups will be gathered and named with their related color theme. In addition, if the palette has a custom name, every group is gathered into one with the palette name.

Once the palette is ready, click the Sync with the local variables button to add every color shade/tint to the document's local variables. These variables can be published as Team Library.

If you update the palette after adding its shades/tints to the local variables, you can click the Sync with the local variables button to update the variables that have been edited. The synchronization is not on both sides because you cannot update your palette from the local variables.

The current behavior of Sketch cannot allow you to replace the previous variables with the new ones. So, the new variables will lose the link with the published ones.

The synchronization with the local styles is not deep by default, so the variables that do not match the shade/tint of your palette will remain. Read more about the Preferences.