Palettes

The Palette tab is where you customise the colours Chromatics uses for every effect, tracker, and animation. If you want an orange HP bar instead of green, or moody purples for your weather effects, this is where to change it.

Every layer and effect in Chromatics pulls its colours from a named palette entry. Editing a palette colour instantly changes every effect that uses it.

Filtering by category

Chromatics has a lot of colours, so the category drop-down lets you narrow the list down to what you're working on.

Category	Used for
All	Every palette entry.
Chromatics	Static Base layers, cutscene animations, startup animations, and other core visuals.
Player Stats	HP, MP, GP, CP, and Experience trackers.
Abilities	Your own castbar effects.
Enmity / Aggro	Enmity tracker stages.
Target / Enemy	Target HP tracker and target castbar.
Status Effects	Buff and debuff colouring.
Cooldowns / Keybinds	Keybind highlighting - available, on cooldown, unassigned.
Notifications	Things like the Duty Finder Bell and other alerts.
Job Gauges	Job Gauge A / B / C colours for every combat class.
Reactive Weather	Colours for every weather type - rain, thunder, snow, and so on.
Job Classes	The colour associated with each job / class.
Raid Zone Effects	Colours used by the choreographed raid-zone animations.
Audio Visualizer	Base, low, mid, and high frequency colours for the Audio Visualizer.

Editing colours

Click any colour swatch in the list to open the colour picker. You can enter values by:

• Picking from the visual colour wheel.

• Typing an RGB value.

• Typing a hex code.

Chromatics applies your change immediately. There's no save button.

Importing and exporting palettes

Use the two buttons to the right of the category drop-down to import or export your palette.

• Export saves your current palette to a file on your PC.

• Import loads a palette file, replacing your current one. Both .chromatics4 and older .chromatics3 palette files are accepted.

Have a palette you love? Share it with other Chromatics users in our Discord. You can also pick up palettes shared by the community.

Resetting a palette

If you want to undo your changes, the easiest path is to re-import the default palette file (available from Discord or your original installation). A full factory reset is also available in Settings → Advanced → Reset Chromatics, which clears all customisation and starts fresh.