A color picker has been added to make choosing colors easier. With a click on a color preview swatch (the ones showing RGB color) the color picker pops up, with a field, a palette, and number controls to choose from.

Color picker
  • Clicking in the gradient color fields or on one of the presets in the palette updates the active color
  • To store the active color as a preset in the palette, hold Ctrl while clicking on the palette square you want to insert to
  • The color button in the bottom right corner contains the previous color before the color picker was opened - click on it to restore the old color. The color button above it shows the currently active color. Pressing Esc will still assign the color

Since the color picker's functionality is part of the Blender UI toolkit, it can be reused in other areas as well. This example shows the picker in a floating Panel in the 3D Window. The standard object properties window (N Key) changes to the color picker in Vertex Paint and Texture Paint modes. The Paint panel in the UV Image Editor also uses this.