Adobe Illustrator CEP Extension

Match your artwork to your swatches. Generate the mill sheet.

Swatch Mill analyzes your Illustrator artwork against your loaded color library, shows you exactly which swatches appear and at what coverage, then builds the print and graphic mill sheets your production team needs.

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Matches artwork to your library ━ Load your .ASE file and the plugin finds which of your swatches appear in the artwork — with exact coverage percentages.

Handles vectors, PSDs, and rasters ━ Analyzes vector shapes, placed Photoshop files, PNGs, and JPGs in a single pass.

Generates mill-ready output sheets ━ Print Mill Sheets, Graphic Mill Sheets, and Presentation Fills added directly as new artboards to your document.

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Features

Everything you need for accurate color spec and mill output

Built for apparel and textile designers who need to match artwork to a color library and deliver production-ready documentation.

ASE Library Import Drag & Drop Loading Saved Libraries Coverage Percentages Color Matching Pick Color Eyedropper Ground Color Setting Min % Threshold Slider Print Mill Sheet Graphic Mill Sheet Presentation Fill Advanced Analysis Controls

Load your swatch library

Click Load .ASE File or drag and drop your color library into the panel. Loaded libraries are saved so you can reload them in one click next session.

Coverage-based color matching

See exactly which swatches from your library appear in the artwork and what percentage of the design each one covers.

Three production-ready outputs

Generate a Print Mill Sheet, Graphic Mill Sheet, or Presentation Fill — each added as a new artboard directly to your Photoshop document.

Refine before you commit

Use the Pick Color eyedropper to inspect any pixel, set a ground color, or drag the Min % slider to hide low-coverage swatches from your output.

Walkthrough

See Swatch Mill in action

Watch how quickly you can go from a complex multi-color document to a clean, exportable swatch library.

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Why Swatch Mill

The color-matching tool apparel designers actually needed

Manually identifying which swatches are in your artwork — and at what coverage — is slow and error-prone. Swatch Mill does it right, automatically, every time.

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Built for the mill submission workflow

Mill sheets, coverage specs, ground color designation — Swatch Mill speaks the language of textile production from the ground up.

Print Mill Sheet formatted for mill submission
Graphic Mill Sheet links your artwork imagery

Handles real-world artwork complexity

Whether your design is all-vector, has placed Photoshop files, or is a raster image, Swatch Mill handles it in a single analysis pass.

Supports vector shapes, placed PSDs, PNG, and JPG
Fit artwork to artboard bounds for best results

RGB required — and that's intentional

Swatch Mill works with RGB .ASE files because pixel-level color analysis is done in Photoshop. CMYK files trigger a warning so you never submit an inaccurate spec.

CMYK warning prevents spec errors reaching the mill
Photoshop opens automatically if it isn't already running

Built different

A plugin built around the apparel production process

No subscriptions. No cloud dependency. Just a focused tool that does one thing extremely well — and speaks the language of mill submissions.

Illustrator panel, Photoshop power

Works as a native CEP panel inside Illustrator, but uses Photoshop's rendering engine under the hood for pixel-accurate color analysis.

Your library, your rules

Swatch Mill matches against the color library you provide — not a generic palette. Your brand colors, your standards, your output.

Output goes straight to the document

Mill sheets and presentation fills are generated as new artboards inside your existing Photoshop document — no file juggling required.

How it works

From artwork selection to mill sheet in three steps

Load your library, analyze your artwork, generate your output. No manual color spec work required.

Load your .ASE swatch library

Click Load .ASE File or drag and drop your swatch library into the panel. It needs to be in RGB color mode — CMYK will trigger a warning. Saved libraries reload in one click next session.

Select your artwork and analyze

Select the artwork inside your artboard — Swatch Mill handles vectors, placed Photoshop files, PNGs, and JPGs. Click Analyze Artwork. Photoshop opens automatically if needed and does the pixel-level analysis.

Review matches and generate your output

Matched swatches appear with coverage percentages. Refine with the eyedropper, ground color, and Min % slider, then generate a Print Mill Sheet, Graphic Mill Sheet, or Presentation Fill as a new artboard in your document.

Pricing

One-time purchase. Yours forever.

No subscriptions. Buy once, keep it for life. Updates are free for the first year.

Personal

For individual designers

One seat. Use it on your personal and freelance projects.

$39 one-time

Buy Personal License

Personal license includes:

Single-seat license
Personal & freelance use
Unlimited document scans
ASE and CSV export
Lifetime access to current version
1 year of free updates
Email support

Commercial

For studios & agencies

Team

For larger teams

Site-wide licensing for studios with five or more designers. Contact us for a quote.

Custom

Team license includes:

5+ seat licensing
Unlimited commercial use
Centralized license management
Priority support with SLA
Onboarding assistance
Volume discounts available

All licenses are perpetual. Also available on the Adobe Exchange marketplace.

Ready to start?

Stop hunting swatches by hand. Let the plugin do it.

One-time purchase. Works inside Illustrator. No subscription required.

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