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# paletteLabel

The label that appears when the toolbar item is in the customization palette.

```
var paletteLabel: String { get set }
```

## Discussion

If you support toolbar customizations, you must provide palette labels for your items. In most cases, you can apply the same value to this property and the [`label`](/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItem/label) property. However, you might use this property to offer a more descriptive string, or to provide a label string when the [`label`](/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItem/label) property contains an empty string.

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