How can I save a 'hatched' color on Mac Pro?

TextEdit's module, Colors only allows 1 of each hex value to be saved in a unique color cube using the same name. So if you use your eye-drop tool, you find that no label is black, hex value #000000. Each color group began as 11 'GROUP' labels.

Label "Pink Colors", using hex value #000001. And so on, up to "Gray Colors", using hex value #000011 in System Color Picker app. In fact, Apple Colors in Category view, click center icon showing color cubes to display custom user category HTML5, restricts each user to only one color name. But allows '+' creation of multiple hex value #000000 cubes saved using unique names. Whereas Rudigar's System Color Picker allows '+' creation of only one (1) hex value #000000, as well as only unique color cube name in each category.

Findings of interest, considering Apple and developer's one-hex-only policies.

1. Multiple saved hatches (screen capture above) share hex value #000000.
2. Apple Colors allows but System Color Picker blocks more than one color cube with hex value #000000.
3. System Color Picker inconsistently converts multiple hex #000000 cubes from black color cubes to hatch cubes.
4. Hatching only occurs for fresh macOS installation (Erase then Reinstall) with user Library containing record of multiple hex #000000 values with unique names saved and restored to /Users/username/Library/Colors before System Color Picker is installed.
5. This is a 'managed' bug that Rudigar or other staff could develop as app feature. As far as Apple is concerned the multiple hex repetition sees consistent labels as "Just one of many features provided to users and developers."

HOW you turn that into product, I have only the ideas shared about this here.

saved hatch color shows as black - but of course drag same Black into saved colors just creates Black record, not the hatch. Cannot find anything here either. /Users/username/Library/Colors/. (HTML5™.clr Unnamed.clr HTML5.txt

NSColorPanelSwatches.plist )

Big question for me is... How to save hatch? Where do they come from? Opacity, maybe, somehow?

Color Picker app copy paste of hatch also gets Black. Which in the CMYK world indicates Black is indeed creating the hatch records. So how is Black teasing your app to gift us with occasional, unexpected hatches? Perhaps you promote that as an app feature as noted, with the click here to add Text Divider. See 'feature' example above.

Note that clicking the hatch highlights text PINK COLORS.

So hatch represents user text. Which you could tweak with transparent background [hint]. I need a cup of devotees coffee ha-ha.

Rudegar asks, "can't just just mark and copy page the hex value?"

I have no idea what you are asking. "Rudegar" is listed as the developer of a 'color' app in the App Store. I think what you are asking is way over my head.

From the App Store I asked you if your System Color Picker app was responsible in some way. If so, then maybe your app needs to develop and market this feature - in a way that promotes Apple's 'color picker' Colors utility that runs in macOS apps like TextEdit ⌘⇧C.

When I install System Color Picker on macOS Monterey, then Black color text simply saved as black using custom category HTML5 used to label WWW Consortium Named Colors color groups Pink Colors, Purple Colors, Red Colors, Orange Colors, etc... when I do that after installing your app System Color Picker, then each of those 4 black colors that I saved using the same name that the Consortium uses (Pink Colors, Purple Colors, Red Colors, Orange Colors, etc), each of those HTML5 "color group" labels turned into hatches, in both Apple Colors and in your System Color Picker. As shown above, in my screen captures.

Unfortunately, I deleted my w3 Color Group hatches and they are not coming back. We all want them Hatch symbols for simply user labels. So I can add text labels to groups of colors in macOS color pickers. Without confusing labels displayed as a repetitious save of color black. As clearly shown here:

The benign 'hatch' that first appeared on installing App Store's System Color Picker. Please bring it back, everyone wants it. Settings control? Well, since Apple reports no Colors label functionality, System Color Picker hatch labels is your baby. 😀

Once on Erase Reinstall copy restore the user Library/Colors files then macOS a single hatch was added but subsequent clean reinstalls not able to reproduce so it must have been a reinstall capture of the hatch creation process, somehow. ???

These hatch records are LOVELY! I want to use them as color Palette dividers. Build them into your app please! Add 'Click here for Hatch.' ❤️

I do believe the digital interface of your hatch has greater significance than just mark and copy.

google textedit color “hatched color” AI Overview

The hatched color in the image is a series of black and white diagonal lines, creating a pattern of alternating dark and light squares. This pattern is commonly used to represent a fill or texture in graphic design and digital interfaces. In the context of the color settings, the hatched pattern is likely a visual representation of the current color, which in this case is black, as indicated by the "Hex Color # 000000" value. The RGB sliders are all set to 0, meaning there is no red, green, or blue, resulting in black. The hatched pattern provides a visual contrast and makes it easier to see the selected color against different backgrounds.

Of course, the hex value for hatch is #000000. Color wheel to set opacity also returns solid color, no hatch. Clicking the hatch brings up RGB Black.