diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft-cli/src/main.rs b/apps/vectorcraft-cli/src/main.rs
index 734f8a056..57b3d4122 100644
--- a/apps/vectorcraft-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/apps/vectorcraft-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -236,11 +236,12 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
 }
 
 /// A headless session that remembers what the user keeps between runs: the PDF presets saved, the
-/// ICC profiles loaded, the plug-ins installed (#2168, #2174, #2541) and the custom dictionary's words (#4936), in the folders
+/// ICC profiles loaded, the plug-ins installed (#2168, #2174, #2541), the custom dictionary's words (#4936) and the Color Settings (#6335), in the folders
 /// and files next to the preferences that the desktop app uses too. `VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS` and `VECTORCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR` apply
 /// as they do there.
 fn with_stores(mut h: Headless) -> Headless {
     prefs_dir::attach_profile_store(&mut h.session);
+    prefs_dir::attach_color_settings(&mut h.session);
     prefs_dir::attach_plugin_store(&mut h.session);
     prefs_dir::attach_pdf_preset_store(&mut h.session);
     prefs_dir::attach_custom_dictionary(&mut h.session);
diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs b/apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs
index 7e4f245d3..b97ee681f 100644
--- a/apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs
+++ b/apps/vectorcraft/src/main.rs
@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ fn main() -> std::process::ExitCode {
                 let mut session = Session::new();
                 // The profiles loaded before come back before the preferences name any of them.
                 prefs_dir::attach_profile_store(&mut session);
+                // Then Edit › Color Settings, which may name one of those profiles.
+                prefs_dir::attach_color_settings(&mut session);
                 // Before any plug-in loads: this launch's marker in the Launch folder next to the
                 // preferences (none for runs without preferences), and Safe Mode.
                 let launch_dir = prefs_path().filter(|_| prefs_enabled()).and_then(|p| Some(p.parent()?.join("Launch")));
diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft/src/prefs_dir.rs b/apps/vectorcraft/src/prefs_dir.rs
index 8e6402703..063d9b1aa 100644
--- a/apps/vectorcraft/src/prefs_dir.rs
+++ b/apps/vectorcraft/src/prefs_dir.rs
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ pub fn attach_profile_store(session: &mut vectorcraft_engine::Session) {
     }
 }
 
+/// Make Edit › Color Settings kept in `Color Settings.json` the active ones (#6335), and keep them
+/// there when they change. After [`attach_profile_store`]: they may name a loaded profile.
+pub fn attach_color_settings(session: &mut vectorcraft_engine::Session) {
+    if let Some(path) = store_dir("Color Settings.json") {
+        session.attach_color_settings(path);
+    }
+}
+
 /// Install the plug-ins Install Plug-in kept in the `Plug-ins` folder (#2541), and keep the ones
 /// installed from now on there.
 pub fn attach_plugin_store(session: &mut vectorcraft_engine::Session) {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/colormgmt.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/colormgmt.rs
index d9b5784b6..03b171de7 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/colormgmt.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/colormgmt.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Color Settings…",
             ["Edit"],
             Some("Cmd+Shift+K"),
-            "{rgb?: profile, cmyk?: profile, intent?: \"perceptual\"|\"relative\"|\"saturation\"|\"absolute\", bpc?: bool} set the working spaces → {rgb, cmyk, intent, bpc, profiles: [{name, kind, builtin}]}",
+            "{rgb?: profile, cmyk?: profile, intent?: \"perceptual\"|\"relative\"|\"saturation\"|\"absolute\", bpc?: bool} set the working spaces → {rgb, cmyk, intent, bpc, profiles: [{name, kind, builtin}]}. The desktop app and vectorcraft-cli keep them in `Color Settings.json` next to the preferences and use them again at the next start (not with VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS); saved settings naming a profile that is gone leave the defaults",
             always,
             color_settings
         ),
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ fn color_settings(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     st.bpc = switch_or(p, "bpc", st.bpc, C)?;
     if st != before {
         cms::set_active(&st).map_err(|e| bad(C, e.to_string()))?;
+        // Saved for the next start when the app attached a settings file (#6335).
+        s.store_color_settings(&st);
         touch_all(s);
     }
     Ok(settings_json(&st))
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
index d18afc87e..abde09e82 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/lib.rs
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ pub struct Session {
     /// Where the ICC profiles `color.loadProfile` loads are kept; `None`: only for the process
     /// ([`Session::attach_profile_store`]).
     profile_dir: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,
+    /// The file Edit › Color Settings are kept in; `None`: only for the process
+    /// ([`Session::attach_color_settings`]).
+    color_settings_file: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,
     /// Where the plug-ins `plugin.install` installs are kept; `None`: only for the process
     /// ([`Session::attach_plugin_store`]).
     plugin_dir: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs b/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
index 8a1ef8f69..66525c9af 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ impl Session {
             pdf_preset_dir: None,
             dictionary_file: None,
             profile_dir: None,
+            color_settings_file: None,
             plugin_dir: None,
             ignored_plugin_grants: Default::default(),
             plugin_output: None,
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/store.rs b/crates/engine/src/store.rs
index ae98bdf4f..f6fe8ff5b 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/store.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/store.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 //! * **ICC profiles**: the bytes of each profile `color.loadProfile` registered, as `.icc` files
 //!   named after the profile, never the path they came from (a profile in a system folder may
 //!   move or go away). Attaching the folder registers them again.
+//! * **Color Settings**: the working spaces, intent and black point compensation
+//!   `edit.colorSettings` sets, as one JSON file (#6335). Attaching it, after the profiles, makes
+//!   them the active settings again.
 //! * **Plug-ins**: the module of each plug-in `plugin.install` installs, as a `.wasm` file named
 //!   after its id (as Illustrator keeps plug-ins in its Plug-ins folder); `plugin.remove` deletes it.
 //!   Attaching the folder installs them again, except in Safe Mode and except the ones the user
@@ -293,6 +296,31 @@ impl Session {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Keep Edit › Color Settings (the working spaces, intent and black point compensation) in the
+    /// file `path`, and make the settings saved there the active ones (#6335). After
+    /// [`Session::attach_profile_store`]: they may name a profile it registers. Settings that can't be
+    /// read, or that name a profile that is gone, leave the defaults with a log record, and the file
+    /// as it is until the settings change.
+    pub fn attach_color_settings(&mut self, path: PathBuf) {
+        if path.exists() {
+            let restored = read_capped(&path, MAX_PRESET_FILE)
+                .and_then(|bytes| serde_json::from_slice::<vectorcraft_color::cms::ColorSettings>(&bytes).map_err(|e| e.to_string()))
+                .and_then(|settings| vectorcraft_color::cms::set_active(&settings).map_err(|e| e.to_string()));
+            if let Err(e) = restored {
+                log::warn!("not using the saved color settings {}: {e}", path.display());
+            }
+        }
+        self.color_settings_file = Some(path);
+    }
+
+    /// Write `settings` to the file [`Session::attach_color_settings`] named; `false` when they
+    /// didn't go there.
+    pub(crate) fn store_color_settings(&self, settings: &vectorcraft_color::cms::ColorSettings) -> bool {
+        let Some(path) = &self.color_settings_file else { return false };
+        let (Some(dir), Some(file)) = (path.parent(), path.file_name().and_then(|f| f.to_str())) else { return false };
+        serde_json::to_vec_pretty(settings).is_ok_and(|bytes| put(dir, file, &bytes))
+    }
+
     /// Keep the plug-ins this session installs in `dir`, take the disabled plug-ins saved there
     /// ([`DISABLED_FILE`]), and install the stored ones ([`Session::load_stored_plugins`]).
     pub fn attach_plugin_store(&mut self, dir: PathBuf) {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests/store.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests/store.rs
index 37eafe6e4..44494aa53 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests/store.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests/store.rs
@@ -202,3 +202,66 @@ fn stored_profiles_register_again_and_removing_one_removes_its_copy() {
     assert!(s.execute("color.removeProfile", &json!({"name": cms::SRGB})).is_err(), "built-in profiles stay");
     s.execute("color.removeProfile", &json!({"name": other})).unwrap();
 }
+
+/// #6335: Edit › Color Settings come back in the next session: the working spaces (a loaded
+/// profile among them, registered again by the profile store first), the intent and black point
+/// compensation. A session nobody attached a file to keeps nothing, and nothing is written before
+/// the settings change.
+#[test]
+fn color_settings_come_back_in_the_next_session() {
+    let _g = super::colormgmt::GLOBAL.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    let root = fresh_dir("color-settings");
+    let (profiles, file) = (root.join("Color Profiles"), root.join("Color Settings.json"));
+    let loaded = "StoreRGB-6";
+    let icc = vectorcraft_testkit::temp_dir("store-color-settings").join("loaded.icc");
+    std::fs::write(&icc, icc_named(loaded)).unwrap();
+
+    let mut a = Session::new();
+    a.attach_profile_store(profiles.clone());
+    a.attach_color_settings(file.clone());
+    a.execute("color.loadProfile", &json!({"path": icc.to_str().unwrap()})).unwrap();
+    a.execute("edit.colorSettings", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert!(!file.exists(), "nothing to keep before the settings change");
+    a.execute("edit.colorSettings", &json!({"rgb": loaded, "cmyk": cms::DEVICE_CMYK, "intent": "perceptual", "bpc": false})).unwrap();
+    let chosen = cms::ColorSettings { rgb: loaded.into(), cmyk: cms::DEVICE_CMYK.into(), intent: cms::Intent::Perceptual, bpc: false };
+    assert_eq!(cms::active_settings(), chosen);
+
+    // The next start begins with the defaults.
+    cms::set_active(&cms::ColorSettings::default()).unwrap();
+    let mut b = Session::new();
+    b.attach_profile_store(profiles);
+    b.attach_color_settings(file.clone());
+    assert_eq!(cms::active_settings(), chosen, "the saved settings are the active ones again");
+
+    // Without a file, a change is kept only for the process.
+    let mut c = Session::new();
+    c.execute("edit.colorSettings", &json!({"bpc": true})).unwrap();
+    let saved: cms::ColorSettings = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(&file).unwrap()).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(saved, chosen, "the file is left alone");
+
+    cms::set_active(&cms::ColorSettings::default()).unwrap();
+    b.execute("color.removeProfile", &json!({"name": loaded})).unwrap();
+}
+
+/// #6335: saved Color Settings that can't be used (a profile that is gone, a damaged or oversized
+/// file) leave the defaults and the file as it is; the next change writes over it.
+#[test]
+fn saved_color_settings_that_cannot_be_used_leave_the_defaults() {
+    let _g = super::colormgmt::GLOBAL.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
+    let file = fresh_dir("color-settings-bad").join("Color Settings.json");
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(file.parent().unwrap()).unwrap();
+    let gone = json!({"rgb": cms::SRGB, "cmyk": "A Profile That Is Gone", "intent": "perceptual", "bpc": false}).to_string().into_bytes();
+    let oversized = vec![b' '; MAX_PRESET_FILE as usize + 1];
+    for bytes in [gone, b"not json".to_vec(), oversized] {
+        cms::set_active(&cms::ColorSettings::default()).unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(&file, &bytes).unwrap();
+        let mut s = Session::new();
+        s.attach_color_settings(file.clone());
+        assert_eq!(cms::active_settings(), cms::ColorSettings::default());
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read(&file).unwrap(), bytes, "left as it is");
+        s.execute("edit.colorSettings", &json!({"bpc": false})).unwrap();
+        let saved: cms::ColorSettings = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(&file).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert!(!saved.bpc && saved.cmyk == cms::GENERIC_CMYK, "written over by the next change: {saved:?}");
+    }
+    cms::set_active(&cms::ColorSettings::default()).unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md
index 566f2e368..9bbd39eb1 100644
--- a/docs/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/mcp.md
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ before anything runs, with the step's number and its entry (`entry 3`) or line (
 
 ### What a headless session remembers
 
-`vectorcraft-cli run` and the headless `mcp` server keep two things between runs, in folders next to the
+`vectorcraft-cli run` and the headless `mcp` server keep these between runs, in folders and files next to the
 preferences (the folder the desktop app uses, so both see the same ones; `VECTORCRAFT_CONFIG_DIR` moves it):
 
 - **Saved PDF presets** (`pdf.preset.save`, `.delete`, `.import`): one `.vcpdfpresets` file per preset in
@@ -1125,8 +1125,12 @@ preferences (the folder the desktop app uses, so both see the same ones; `VECTOR
   command, so `edit.colorSettings {"cmyk": "…"}` or a preset's output intent can name it in a later run. The
   copy is what counts: the original may move or be deleted. `color.removeProfile {name}` forgets a profile and its
   copy (not while it is a working space).
+- **Color Settings** (`edit.colorSettings`): the RGB and CMYK working spaces, intent and black point
+  compensation go into `Color Settings.json` when they change, and are the active settings again at the next
+  start, after the profiles above are registered (#6335). Saved settings that name a profile that is no longer
+  there, or a damaged file, leave the defaults (logged), and the next change writes over the file.
 
-Not remembered: Color Settings, the document, anything else. Nothing is read or written when
+Not remembered: the document, anything else. Nothing is read or written when
 `VECTORCRAFT_NO_PREFS` is set, and a server confined with `--automation-read-root` or
 `--automation-write-root` keeps nothing either (the folders are outside its roots). A file that is damaged, too large
 (a profile over 32 MB, a presets file over 1 MB) or not a valid preset or profile is skipped and logged. When the