Whether you're a graphic designer, a web developer, or a programmer, sometimes you need to precisely duplicate a color you see on the screen to use in your work. And one tool up for the job is Color ...

As I stated in my post HTML5 Date Picker, Opera 11 is ahead of some of the other non-beta web browsers in implementing some of the expected HTML5 tags. In this post, I look at Opera’s implementation ...

Swiss style graphic design focuses on abstract geometric patterns and uncommon color combinations. It makes for some great inspiration. German designer Fabian Burghardt has created the Swiss Style ...

Drop, a color picker for macOS, has launched today with support for the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. Built by the Tapity app development team, Drop serves as lightweight tool allowing user’s to ...

Microsoft today updated the Windows 10 PowerToys toolset with a new Color Picker utility that adds a system-wide tool to help you pick colors from anywhere on your screen and copy them to your ...

While I was on Reddit (using the excellent Apollo for iOS) this weekend, I came across a fun new application that I am glad I now have. It’s called Aurora. Aurora is a simple color picker for macOS ...

Most days, I focus on a single product in Mac Gems; today I’m going to cover a couple plugins for Mac OS X that offer simple but useful features. Granted, Hex Color Picker is accessible only in ...

Developer John Calhoun tells the story of working on the Mac color picker in the mid-1990s, including how he independently added the crayon color picker without any oversight from design or marketing.

Hex codes are a simple, unambiguous way to designate colors in digital media. However, going from a color in your head to a hex code can be difficult for the unpracticed. [Guy Dupont] built a little ...

In the world of software, a grayed-out or disabled Web link, button, menu item or tool can be like a nightclub bouncer denying you access through the doors. Although the Adobe Photoshop image -editing ...

Have you ever wanted to match paint to the color of a pillow, or make a website where the primary color matches your favorite shade of electrolytic capacitor? Then ColorReplica is the project for you.