Adding color groups to color swatch palette?

does anyone know if a plugin exists for ID3 that will let you create color groups (like paragraph and character style sheets).
thanks!

I don't know of a plugin; but if all you're trying to do is keep a group of colors that you can load/reload together, why not keep them in a Library item?

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