adding / using custom colours to LibreOffice

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Well, for those who want to just to find a color's HTML code, there are many pre-made color charts charts on the web.  The color chart PDF files I have, on my LibreOffice-NA.US domain, have a link to their source location[s] as part of each page in the PDF file.  With these color charts, there are the color code and the color names for each color shown.  You can just find a color you want and then use the "custom color" option and insert the HTML Hex code there.

For those who just want to go through a palette drop down dialog color selection, they may want to have custom palettes to choose from.  I did a few years back and still do.  That is why I am working one some specific color palettes to use - like wood browns and gold-like colors.

Also, my site shows the location[s] where you find other palette files, or place your own color palettes. Of course you could also look for "standard.soc" in a global search to find where your system placed that file.

At this point, if a user wants to create a color palette[s], they need to do is open a small color palette .soc file in Writer.  Then delete the unwanted color lines.  From there they use one of the color lines and replace the color name and hex code with your own values.  When you wave the file, you need to save it as a .txt file format.  The next step is to change the .txt to a .soc.  For me, the next part is place the new .soc file to the hidden folder ".config/libreoffice/4/user/config" for my Ubuntu laptop.  At that point I close and reopen LibreOffice so I can update what palettes I now have.  To finish the testing I open the color dialog and choose the new palette.

That is how easy it is to create your own palette file.  Since I am making a small color palette for specific colors or project, you will need to limit the number of colors to less than 100-ish.  Some palettes may have only 10 or 20 colors, depending your needs.