Quickly Grab Hex Numbers with Absolute Color Picker

January 16, 2007 by randomguru 

[ Windows Only ]

This is a great little utility program that can determine hexidecimal color codes from a web page. Ever visit a site and really liked a background color or font color? Absolute Color Picker will allow you to drag your mouse over a color and grab its hexidecimal number!

absolute color picker

Simply launch this utility, click in the white box in the lower right-hand corner, hold down your mouse, and drag it to a color on a web page. Release the mouse, and you’ll see the hex code in the white text box. You can store colors in the boxes to the left.

Full features list:
    1. History of selected colors – up to 12 slots to save the color in
    2. Screen eye-dropper – pick any color directly from screen
    3. HTML color conversion
    4. Customizable color selection dialogs: select only hose color models that are convenient for you
    5. Many predefined color palettes
    6. Compare current and previous color
    7. Customize brightness, hue, saturation and other parameters separately to match your exact selection

      This is a great utility for web designers and web developers who work a LOT with hexidecimal color codes and need to convert them to HTML format. I’ve been using this a LOT lately. A really good time saver.

      You can download it here


      Comments

      2 Responses to “Quickly Grab Hex Numbers with Absolute Color Picker”

      1. pat on January 16th, 2007 10:21 pm

        I wish this ( and the network utility) were mac compatible ;-(

      2. randomguru on January 16th, 2007 10:44 pm

        oh, i forgot to mention that this is for windows only. will correct it. ;)

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