Today we are talking about Marketing, AI, and Drupal with guest Paul Johnson. We'll also cover Curated Colors as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/559

Topics

Paul's Current Projects
Enterprise AI Summit Details
Marketing the AI Initiative
Partnering on Event Booths
Drupal's Outside Perception
What's Working Now
Growing the Marketing Team
How to Contribute
Outside In Storytelling
Case Study Examples
AI Initiative Impact
Roadmap and Launch Planning
Finding New Adopters
Where Pros Research
Conference Pitch Story
Local Event Playbook
Funnel and Webinars
Industry Guides and Demos
SEO and AI Search
Why Agents Avoid Drupal
High Leverage Contributions
Measuring AI Mentions
Vibe Coders to Governance
Fixing Misconceptions

Resources

Drupal AI Initiative home page
Slack
- #ai-initiative-marketing
Enterprise AI Summit Rotterdam
AI Dev Summit Rotterdam
Drupal AI TV
- We've curated a selection of the best presentations, workshops and demonstrations freely available to provide a practical way to stay informed about the latest innovations in Drupal AI.
Drupal AI Webinars playlist
Demos
Ryan Whitcombe
1xINTERNET S1xSignals free AIO GEO assessment
All things open
World cancer day

Guests

Paul Johnson - pdjohnson

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to allow editors on your Drupal site to choose styling from a brand-approved color palette? There's a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Curated Colors
Brief history
- How old: created in Apr 2026 by Kyle Einecker (ctrladel) of True Summit
- Versions available: 1.0.0 which works with Drupal 10.3, 11, and 12
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation - in-depth README
- Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs
Usage stats:
- 27 sites
Module features and usage
- Curated Colors enforces brand consistency by replacing generic color text inputs or wide-open color pickers with a curated, visual swatch popover containing only pre-approved, named options
- It streamlines rebranding by storing abstract keys (such as brand-primary) instead of raw hex values (e.g., #0678be) in the database. That means updating a brand color in the future only requires a CSS or configuration change rather than a massive data migration
- Curated Colors is also extensible beyond colors. It functions as a generic visual variant selector. Site builders can repurpose it to let editors pick card layouts, button styles (like primary, outline, or danger), hero text alignments, or icon themes
- Editors can pick from neatly organized groups with human-readable labels and see a live preview swatch of their selection before saving
- Palettes are managed as exportable Drupal configuration. Each entry maps a machine key to a label, administrative hex preview, and optional custom CSS
- The module provides a curated_color field type and an accompanying swatch-based popover widget that can be restricted to specific palette groups. It also features a native curated_color_picker Form API element and integrates with the Canvas module via SDC annotations
- The field exposes properties like value, hex, style, and css, making it simple to output selections as classes, inline styles, or raw codes in Twig templates
- Finally, Curated Colors includes an example submodule providing a working SDC component and sample palette templates so you can see exactly how it's meant to be used