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Modify custom color palettes and color schemes of Favorites in ArcGIS Pro

Last Published: September 5, 2023

Summary

When symbolizing features in ArcGIS Pro, the color palettes and color schemes can be customized and saved as the Favorites style. Saving these customized colors as Favorites promotes consistency and standardization across maps, scenes, layouts, and even projects, as it is linked to the user account. To save customized colors to the Favorites style, refer to ArcGIS Pro: Save colors in a style.

Customized color palettes or color schemes saved as Favorites are sometimes outdated and must be modified to newer, uncluttered designs. This article provides the workflow.

The customized color palette (image on the left) and color scheme (image on the right) shown below are saved as the Favorites style.

The color palette and color scheme of Favorites styles.

Procedure

  1. Open the ArcGIS Pro project.
  2. In the Catalog pane, expand Styles, right-click Favorites and select Manage Style to open the catalog view.
  3. On the View tab, in the Options group, click Details Panel to open the details panel.
  4. In the catalog view, click the Favorites folder.
  5. In the Details panel, under Style Classes,
    • Click Color to modify the color palette.
    • Click Color scheme to modify the color scheme.
The Details panel of the Favorites style in the catalog view.
  1. Select the color or color scheme to modify. The my_rainbow color scheme is selected in this example.
Note:
To delete a color or color scheme from the Favorites style, right-click the desired item in the Favorites folder and click Delete.
  1. In the Details panel, click the Properties tab and modify the color properties such as type, color, transparency, position, or algorithm. In this example, the color, black, is added and the transparency of each color in the scheme is increased.
  2. Click Apply.
The color properties of a style configured on the Properties tab of the Details panel.

Demonstrated below is the modified color palette (image on the left) and color scheme (image on the right) of the Favorites style.

The modified color palette and color scheme of the Favorites style.

Article ID: 000030363

Software:
  • ArcGIS Pro 3 1
  • ArcGIS Pro 3 0
  • ArcGIS Pro 2 9x

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