Strips & the gradient editor¶

Everything to do with building a palette lives in the Strips panel.

Adding strips¶

At the top of the Strips panel:

Add ▸ Flat — adds a new Flat Color strip.
Add ▸ Gradient — adds a new Gradient strip (a Color Ramp).

New strips drop into the next free cell of the grid.

Strips panel

Palette full?

If every cell is taken, adding a strip reports "Palette is full". Increase the grid size first — see Grid, resolution & layout.

The strip list¶

Below the add buttons is the list of strips. Each row shows the strip's name, a type icon, a color preview and a lock toggle. The side column has buttons to:

Button	Action
Remove	Delete the active strip.
Duplicate	Copy the active strip into the next free cell.
Copy to palette	Copy the active strip into another palette — great for a shared color library.
/ Move	Re-order the strip (its grid cell, and every painted UV, follows).

When one or more strips are ticked (selected), a Delete Selected button appears for batch deletion.

Lock a strip

Toggle the lock to prevent accidental edits, moves or deletion of a finished strip.

Editing the active strip¶

Select a strip to open its editor (Editing: name):

Flat Color / Gradient — switch the strip type at any time.
Name — rename the strip (the name shows in the grid map and labels).
Grid cell — read-out of the strip's column/row and its exact UV range, handy when you want to build UVs by hand.

Flat strips¶

A Flat strip has a single Color swatch (RGBA). Click it to open Blender's color picker. The model updates live as you change it.

Gradient strips — the Gradient Editor¶

A Gradient strip embeds Blender's native Color Ramp editor (ColorRamp). You get the full, familiar control set:

Add / remove / drag stops along the bar.
Color mode — RGB, or HSV / HSL with a hue path (Near, Far, Clockwise, Counter-Clockwise) for smooth rainbow-style blends.
Interpolation — Linear, Ease, B-Spline, Cardinal or Constant (hard steps).
Position field for precise stop placement.

Because it's a real Color Ramp, gradients are fully non-destructive: change a stop any time and every face using that strip updates instantly.

Gradient editor

Flip, duplicate & reuse¶

Flip reverses a gradient strip's stops (same as pressing F while painting, but applied permanently to the strip).
Duplicate is perfect for making tonal variations — duplicate a strip, then nudge its colors.
Copy to palette lets you build a master "library" palette and pull colors into per-asset palettes.

Thumbnails are accurate¶

Every color swatch, ramp preview and grid thumbnail is drawn gamma-correctly, so the colors you see in the panel match exactly what lands on your model.