Color Palette Question

[DaveR]

It’s a Mac thing. There have been other threads on this topic.

See:

[SU 2017 Make, Mac OS] Random order of colors/materials in materials window

No, not as yet. The randomness results from a change in the way APFS handles filenames in a particular low-level directory read function that SketchUp evidently uses in several places. This change has also broken various extensions that relied on assumed order when loading Ruby files.