Named swatch palettes the builder actually paints with: roof (Charcoal, Black, Burnished Slate, Crimson, Gallery Blue, Hunter Green), wall (Light Stone, Polar White, Ash Gray, Tan, Clay, Charcoal), wainscot (the wall palette plus Rustic Red-brown) and framing lumber (SYP Pine, Whitewood, Cedar, Red Oak, Walnut, Dark Walnut). Colours live on the spec so a saved design re-renders identically.
Also called: colour selection · color picker · roof colour · wall colour · trim colour · steel colours
- 1The swatches are rectangles, not pills, per the platform brand rule, and the same list drives the Estimates colour rows.
- 2swatchByHex() resolves a stored hex back to its NAME so the estimate and the portal print 'Rustic Red-brown' rather than a hex code.
- 3The estimate's colour rows read the spec for roof, wall, trim, wainscot and lumber, and read the opening finish for window, walk-door and garage-door colours; anything from the builder that has no name shows as 'From 3D builder'.
- 4The takeoff deliberately ignores colours — colour-to-SKU binding is a later step — so a finish change never disturbs quantities.
The colour a customer picks has to be the same colour in the render, on the estimate and in the portal, or they are choosing off one list and buying off another. Selection resolves through a single palette, so the swatch on the summary is the exact colour the model is showing. A default wainscot brown that appeared on the starting buildings but in no palette used to print as a raw hex code — including on the customer's own portal page, which is what a colour with no name looks like to the person paying for it.
- Colour picked in the model and re-picked separately on the estimate.
- Unnamed colours reaching a customer-facing document.
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