Here is an example of a light yellow, pink, green pattern I want to make. Without having to manually find the colors in the pallete box.

Inkscape is the only open source program I know that can make high quality graphical text. But it does not have a "recently used color" dialog like Gimp. Example

What is the most efficient way to make pattern color text in Inkscape? Did I miss something? If I use five colors or more I will have to spend so much time relooking for where they are on the pallete box. If there is a recent color history button please let me know.

Is there a way to get the eye dropper to only color in one character as opposed to all of them?

Convert text with Path->Object to Path - then "Ungroup" don't work?

Otherwise Text can carry different stroke/widths/color fills:

beaver

If I use five colors or more I will have to spend so much time relooking for where they are on the pallete box.

Favorite colors can be saved as swatches. The Auto palette will show the swatches above the status bar.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html#Attributes-CustomSwatches