Hue Dada !

Name: Hue Dada !
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: DouWère, s.p.r.l.

Graphics & Design

Only for Mac

$2.99

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4+
Years
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Graphics & Design
Developer

DouWère, s.p.r.l.
Language

EN
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Size

16.7
MB

Mac

The application that colors your icons according to their tag. Drag and drop any Finder item into the Hue Dada icon to colorize it according to its tag. Any tag change will adjust the color of the previously dropped item, without further intervention. The application updates the icon based on the original preview of the item while a colored tag remains linked. If you already use the Finder tags, you will be delighted to see them more easily now, or even to be able to identify them where they did not appear without Hue Dada ! (e.g., in the Dock stacks, in item lists in the menus, etc). If you are not using the Finder tags, this is the opportunity to discover their features.

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Great, with one request
04/09/2019

sugrmagz
Love that I can finally set folder colors to what they should be -- same color as the label! This is way too complicated by default (when you "adjust colors" on the folder icon in Preview, it takes much fiddling to find colors, vs of having a color picker) AND High Sierra doesn't seem to work as other versions. This little app solves the whole problem. My only complaint is that the folder colors are too muted. Red is almost orange, Yellow is almost umber, Green is muddy, and Blue is too light. I would really like to pick my own folder color with a picker, not rely on the app to decide what version of red is red, etc. One more plus: contrary to what some have said, there IS a way to do multiple folders at once! Just select them all, ctrl+click, choose the label you want, and then while they are all selected, drag them all to the icon. Wait a few seconds, and they will all change color. Yay!

Developer Response
Thanks for this feedback! YOU CAN do exactly what you are asking for. In order to use ‘stronger’ colors, you can add a tag whose name matches one of the ‘Crayons’ colors (from the color picker). For example, on an English system, adding a tag named ‘Maraschino’ will color the item in a red red ;-) when adding it to the tracked items, by dropping it onto the Hue Dada ! menu. In order to make this even easier, you can drag and drop the tag names out of the Preferences window (when in the ‘Colors’ pane). You can also use any value from the color wheel, by first clicking the ‘bigger’ tag, near this draggable tag name… or, if you are an HTML expert, use the #XXX or #XXXXXX color names as tag, directly.
Great, with one request
04/09/2019

sugrmagz

Love that I can finally set folder colors to what they should be -- same color as the label! This is way too complicated by default (when you "adjust colors" on the folder icon in Preview, it takes much fiddling to find colors, vs of having a color picker) AND High Sierra doesn't seem to work as other versions. This little app solves the whole problem. My only complaint is that the folder colors are too muted. Red is almost orange, Yellow is almost umber, Green is muddy, and Blue is too light. I would really like to pick my own folder color with a picker, not rely on the app to decide what version of red is red, etc. One more plus: contrary to what some have said, there IS a way to do multiple folders at once! Just select them all, ctrl+click, choose the label you want, and then while they are all selected, drag them all to the icon. Wait a few seconds, and they will all change color. Yay!
Developer Response 07/25/2019
Thanks for this feedback! YOU CAN do exactly what you are asking for. In order to use ‘stronger’ colors, you can add a tag whose name matches one of the ‘Crayons’ colors (from the color picker). For example, on an English system, adding a tag named ‘Maraschino’ will color the item in a red red ;-) when adding it to the tracked items, by dropping it onto the Hue Dada ! menu. In order to make this even easier, you can drag and drop the tag names out of the Preferences window (when in the ‘Colors’ pane). You can also use any value from the color wheel, by first clicking the ‘bigger’ tag, near this draggable tag name… or, if you are an HTML expert, use the #XXX or #XXXXXX color names as tag, directly.
Great idea, not so great execution
10/25/2023

AlexDesignsIt
I wish there was more documentation on how to use this, because it is NOT intuitive at all.How can I change the names of the tags? It says to drag and drop a tag to associate a color with it, but no matter what I do it doesn't work. Help please?
Great idea, not so great execution
10/25/2023

AlexDesignsIt

I wish there was more documentation on how to use this, because it is NOT intuitive at all.How can I change the names of the tags? It says to drag and drop a tag to associate a color with it, but no matter what I do it doesn't work. Help please?
Cumbersome: needs tighter Finder integration
06/15/2016

Bend person
Hue Dada partially restores very useful Finder label capabilities that Apple removed many years ago, but the implementation is awkward. Instead of needing to manually drag each item to the app’s Menu Bar icon, there should at least be the option of automatically coloring icons according to the first (or a preferred) Finder tag.We’re working on computers whose job is to automate tasks. Hue Dada is a good start toward a manual workaround for Finder shortcomings, and hopefully the author will enable automation soon. And yes, I realize that Apple’s locked down a lot of Finder functionality, but a creative developer should be able to work something out.
Cumbersome: needs tighter Finder integration
06/15/2016

Bend person

Hue Dada partially restores very useful Finder label capabilities that Apple removed many years ago, but the implementation is awkward. Instead of needing to manually drag each item to the app’s Menu Bar icon, there should at least be the option of automatically coloring icons according to the first (or a preferred) Finder tag.We’re working on computers whose job is to automate tasks. Hue Dada is a good start toward a manual workaround for Finder shortcomings, and hopefully the author will enable automation soon. And yes, I realize that Apple’s locked down a lot of Finder functionality, but a creative developer should be able to work something out.
Makes finder so much easier to navigate
05/22/2018

bkrong
It’s amazing what a little color will do for navigating folder structures. Love this app!
Makes finder so much easier to navigate
05/22/2018

bkrong

It’s amazing what a little color will do for navigating folder structures. Love this app!

Runs natively on Apple Silicon. Last version before version 2.0 (with price increase, but free for V1.n owners).

Version 1.9.9

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Great, with one request

Great idea, not so great execution

Cumbersome: needs tighter Finder integration

Makes finder so much easier to navigate

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