Use a color palette in a generation

Last updated: October 23, 2026

Pick a palette in the Colors field, so a generation uses your brand's colors or an event's, from a reference set or your own.

Before you start

The Colors field is on every model that can use a palette: a model that takes one directly gets the exact colors, and any other model whose prompt describes how the output looks gets them added to its prompt. Its help says which kind the selected model is.
The field is not shown on text and audio models, on models whose prompt is not a description of the look (text set into the image, a search for part of it, a sound or a motion), or on tools that must leave the art's colors as they are, such as Translate text and Remove text.
A palette comes from a reference set's Color palette tab, or you make one in the field. See Create a reference set.

Steps

Open Create image and add your brand set with the Reference set tile above the prompt. The Colors field reads From followed by the set's name: the run takes that set's palette without you picking it.
Click Colors. The palettes of the sets you attached are listed first, under Attached, and every other set's palette is under Other palettes. Type in Search palettes… to find one by name.
Pick the palette you want, here the winter event's. It replaces the attached sets' palettes for this run, and a line under the field names the palette it replaces, for example Replaces Nightfall Forge Brand's palette.
Choose the model. If it takes fewer colors than the palette holds, the field keeps the first ones and says how many, for example Using the first 10 of 12 colors: this model takes up to 10.
Describe the image in the prompt and click Create image.

Result

The image lands on the board in the palette's colors. The palette is saved with the run, so running it again uses the same colors.

A model that takes a palette directly gets the exact colors. On any other model the colors are added to the prompt as color names with their hex codes, grouped by role, and the result follows them more loosely. Your prompt itself stays as you wrote it.

Production tips

Keep the brand palette on the brand set. Put it on the set's Color palette tab once, and every run that attaches the set takes it. Use the Colors field for the exceptions: a seasonal event, a partner campaign, a one-off variant.
Put the colors that matter first. A model that takes fewer colors than the palette holds uses the first ones, so order the palette from most to least important.
Give colors roles. A role such as background or accent tells a model that reads the colors from its prompt what each one is for, since the colors reach it grouped by role.
Combine sets for a fuller palette. When several attached sets carry a palette, their colors are combined, each color once, up to what the model takes. The field then reads From followed by the number of attached sets.
Use a model that takes a palette for exact colors. For brand-accurate key art or UI colors, choose a model whose Colors help does not say the colors are added to the prompt.
Save a palette you made here. After building a palette in the field, click Save as reference set. It is saved as a Brand set in the project, so the team picks the same one next time.

If something goes wrong

There is no Colors field. The model or tool does not use a palette. Choose a model that generates images, video or 3D from a description of the look.
The result ignores some of the colors. The model takes fewer colors than the palette holds (the field says so), or it reads the colors from its prompt and follows them loosely. Reorder the palette, or choose a model that takes a palette directly.
The attached set's colors were not used. The Colors field holds another palette, which replaces the sets'. Open the field and click Clear palette.
The colors did nothing on a run with no prompt. A model that reads the colors from its prompt gets them only with a prompt. Describe the image, even briefly.