Sketch Global colors to Layers

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Sketch Global colors to Layers

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Last edited Aug 28, 2020

Created on Aug 28, 2020

This example demonstrates how to extract the global color palette from Sketch’s asset library and render each color as a square swatch on the selected page. It iterates through the document’s color assets, converts each color from its native color space to a hexadecimal string, and creates a new `ShapePath` for every swatch, positioning them in a horizontal row. The script uses the Sketch JavaScript API, specifically `MSPersistentAssetCollection`, `ShapePath`, and `Rectangle`, with custom helper functions for RGB-to-hex conversion.

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