System Color Picker 4+

The built-in color picker

Sindre Sorhus

    • 4.9 • 325 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Pick colors from anywhere using the built-in color picker.


■ Features

- Palettes
- Recently picked colors
- Quickly copy, paste, and convert colors in Hex, HSL, RGB, LCH 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


■ 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 OKLCH: Shift+Command+o
- Copy as LCH: Shift+Command+l
- Paste color: Shift+Command+v (In the format Hex, HSL, RGB, or LCH)
- Reset opacity: Control+Shift+o


■ Support

Use the feedback button in the “Help” menu in the app.


■ Open-source

The app is open-source on GitHub (see the website).

What’s New

Version 2.0.0

- The app now requires macOS 14. You can get the last macOS 13 compatible version from the app's website.
- Added support for the OKLCH color space.
- Color syntax with opacity is now fully supported.
- LCH color space is no longer clamped to sRGB.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
325 Ratings

325 Ratings

Rz__f ,

Very handy when using colours

As a developer or a desingner when you need to either get a colour, or explore some variation on an option, this little app addresses the needs.

kingjames1970 ,

Brilliant!

Excellent app - finding the value of any colour on your screen is so easy. Particularly useful to be able to use the drop down menu to see the values of recently 'picked' colour to jot down into PowerPoint or similar.

ZiaColour ,

Colour Picker

It's really easy to capture colours that appear on my mac. It's really easy to open the app from the top of the menu.

The colour on screen can be selected with the select tool.

Wonderful. I would really recommed this.

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