Pick colors from anywhere using the built-in color picker.
Note: On macOS 26, a system bug causes the color sampler to sometimes pick the wrong color. The app relies on macOS's color sampler and canot fix this.
■ Features
- Palettes
- Recently picked colors
- Quickly copy, paste, and convert colors in Hex, HSL, RGB, Unit RGB (0-1), OKLCH, LCH, CMYK format
- Show as a normal app or in the menu bar
- Pick a color or toggle the window from anywhere with a global keyboard shortcut
- Make the window stay on top of all other windows
- Launch it at login (when in the menu bar)
- Hide menu bar icon
- Shortcuts support
- Import Simple Color Palette and Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) palettes
■ Tip
Press the Space key while using the color sampler to show the RGB values. The color sampler is a system component and it can unfortunately not show other kinds of color values.
■ Keyboard shortcuts
You can use the following keyboard shortcuts in the app:
- Pick color: Command+p
- Copy as Hex: Shift+Command+h
- Copy as HSL: Shift+Command+s
- Copy as RGB: Shift+Command+r
- Copy as Unit RGB: Shift+Command+u
- Copy as OKLCH: Shift+Command+o
- Copy as LCH: Shift+Command+l
- Copy as CMYK: Shift+Command+k
- Paste color: Shift+Command+v (In the format Hex, HSL, RGB, Unit RGB, OKLCH, LCH, or CMYK)
- Reset opacity: Control+Shift+o
■ Support
Use the feedback button in the “Help” menu in the app.
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tqwhite
I do not use this every day. I have tried a zillion color picking tools. Usually, I can't figure out how to use it when the need arises two months later. This one I can. It responds to 'color' in Spotlight so I can find it.Also, it does exactly what I want. Click the eyedropper, click anything I can see, click next to the representation I want. DONE.AND, if that's not enough, it contributes to the system swatch library so I can add an unusual color to my email if I want.
Great color picker
EdiPhone
A great way to access the system color picker in a standalone app, with option in settings to show in the menubar as well. Wish I could change the menubar icon to a custom one, the standard one is small and looks out of place next to my other menubar icons. I was able to download and add other .clr color palettes to my Library/Colors directory (Pantone ones by Midwinter Duncan Grant) which show up in the 3rd tab palettes list after restarting the app.
Even better if you change the settings
NeedMatcha.com
Install this > Go to it's Settings > turn on "Copy color...after picking" > turn on "Quit after picking" (if you want) > click turn on "Show color sampler when opening"Now this app is even better. You open it. It automatically is ready to pick a color. You pick a color. It copies it. It closes itself. You paste the color. You continue working.
It works better than the stock app
cscottyb
The Digital Color Meter, a default MacOS color picker app, is not useful for graphic arts, and the default color picker app doesn't that other apps have to use doesn't show all the color spaces you need to work on design rapidly. I am able to see the values of RGB, HEX, LCH and HSL through 1 interface, which reduces the friction that was there before. Highly recommend if you work in multiple colorspaces.
- Bug fixes.
Version 2.2.2
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