Pastel 4+
Beautiful color palettes
Steven Troughton-Smith
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
250,000+ downloads later, Pastel is back and better than ever, with a ground-up revamp designed for Mac. Now available for Apple Vision Pro.
Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel!
Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects.
With drag & drop, drag colors out into other apps like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps.
Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud.
Analyze photos to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel.
Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. Drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette.
Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker.
From the menu bar, bring up the color picker from wherever you are and sample colors from the screen.
Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, or export as an image.
In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 20 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using a straightforward, once-off in-app purchase.
What’s New
Version 2.2.6
• Adds protection against future library format changes
Ratings and Reviews
Very good!
I was pleasantly surprised with this app. Highly recommend!
A Solid Color Palette Manager with a lot of Potential
As a 1.0 release, this app functions well and can be an great addition to any designers toolkit, especially with the recent advancements of iPadOS.
That being said, there are a few things I can see being improved. They are as follows:
The color picker UI has an indicator at the bottom showing the selected color within the context of the palette. This is great, but it would be much more beneficial to be able to re-arrange the colors so that comparisons can be made between different colors within the relevant palette.
When you tap on a color within a palette, there is a delay with the color wheel on iPhone. It jumps from the default position to the selected color. This is minor, but noticeable.
On iPadOS, it can confusing being able to have two color wheels open at once (main in middle column, another on the right.
Borders could be beneficial for dark colors on dark mode and light colors on light mode. Licorice for instance gets lost on a dark background.
A feature to compare color contrast values would be incredibly beneficial for creating accessible palettes.
The “Library” heading is missing on iPadOS.
There is a bug when trying to open the right-column color picker UI while in iPad portrait.
Is perfect
Exactly what I needed for my creative workflow.
App Privacy
The developer, Steven Troughton-Smith, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Steven Troughton-Smith
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020–2023 High Caffeine Content
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pastel (Full Unlock) $12.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.