An Anecdote: Inkscape: Creating Custom Color Palettes

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Nick from Logos By Nick has created an excellent video on creating custom color palettes. I just wanted to give myself a reminder and a quick write up of how to do it.
  1. Setup the document:
    1. Go to –> File –> Document Properties
      1. Change the Display Units to px (pixels)
      2. Uncheck Show page border
    2. Go to –> View
      1. Select Custom
      2. Zoom –> Zoom 1:1
  2. Creating the palette
    1. Create two squares: one at each end of the gradient you want.
      1. Create one with the square tool. Placing the square at one end of the page
      2. Duplicate it with ctrl+d
      3. Move it with the move tool while holding ctrl to keep it horizontally align and place it at the other end of the page.
    2. While holding shift, select both squares. Go to –> Path –> Object to Path. Alternatively, use the shortcut shift+ctrl+c
    3. Interpolating
      1. Go to –> Extensions –> Generate from Path –> Interpolate…
        1. A menu will pop up. Have the following settings:
          1. Exponent: 0.0
          2. Interpolation steps: 8 (or how ever many you want. Eight will give you eight additional colors for a total of 10 because you already have two from the base colors.)
          3. Interpolation method: 1
          4. Duplicate endpaths: unchecked
          5. Interpolate style: checked
          6. Use Z-order: unchecked
        2. Select apply.
      2. Select the newly interpolated group of colors and ungroup them with shift+ctrl+g.
    4. Adding the colors to swatches
      1. Go to –> View –> Swatches
      2. Select each color and in the Fill menu, select the swatches icon next to the ? icon.
      3. Repeat the previous step for all colors.
      4. Then click the red X in the swatches menu. This will show all the colors in the swatches menu.
    5. Alternatively, you can save this as an image to be used in a different program like photoshop or clip paint studio.