Found a dumb simple trick for keeping my color palettes consistent in Sketch

I was working on a branding project for a local bakery here in Austin and kept second-guessing my color choices across different screens. Tried saving swatches, using shared styles, even screenshotted my palette and kept it open on a second monitor. Nothing stuck because I'd always forget which hex code went where after a few days. Then I started naming my colors after real things in the bakery like 'croissant crust' and 'blueberry smear' instead of 'warm brown 2' or 'accent purple'. Sounds silly but my brain actually remembers those names and I stopped picking the wrong shade mid-project. Has anyone else used weird naming like this for their files or palettes and noticed it helps?

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the_patricia8d ago

Haha that's brilliant! It's like giving your brain a little story to latch onto instead of boring numbers.

james_butler8d ago

My old man used to do that with grocery lists, turned it into a little story about a family of robbing items planning a heist in the shopping cart. Made the trip twice as long because he kept laughing and forgetting what came next.