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Project-Color-Picker

Project Color Picker

Screen pick + 14 color modes

Pick any color on screen and read it in 14 color modes.

A small color picker for when you don’t want to open a browser: RGBA, HEX, HSL, HSB, CMYK, HWB, OKLCH, LAB, GRAY, YUV, YPbPr, XYZ, xyY and Munsell.

  • 14 color modes
  • Windows 10 / 11 x64
  • MIT
  • macOS
Project Color Picker with a purple picked, its RGBA sliders, HEX value and saved swatches

01

What the setup does

Run the downloaded file and follow the wizard.

  1. Installs for your account and adds Color Picker to the Start menu. No admin prompt.
  2. Your last color, mode, pin and swatches are saved next to the app, so it installs in your user folder where it can write them.
  3. Uninstall any time from Settings → Apps.

Other ways to install

Build from source 
git clone https://github.com/acus9345/Project-Color-Picker
cd Project-Color-Picker
cargo run --release

macOS

Mac users: see the macos folder in the repo.

On a Mac

  1. Open the .dmg and drag Project Color Picker into Applications. One app for Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 10.15 or later.
  2. Pick Screen (or P) opens macOS’s own color sampler, and Cmd works wherever Ctrl does.
  3. Colors and settings are saved in ~/Library/Application Support/Project Color Picker.

02

What it does

From the project’s README.

Pick from anywhere

Pick (or P) grabs a color from anywhere on screen.

Drag or scroll

Drag the color plane, the hue and alpha bars or any channel slider; scroll over a slider to nudge it one step.

Type a value

Click the value box to type. #hex works in every mode.

Copy and paste

Copy the values or the hex. Ctrl+C copies the values, Ctrl+V pastes a color.

Swatches

Click an empty one to save, a saved one to use it, right-click to replace, middle-click to clear.

Pin on top

The pin in the title bar keeps the window above everything else.

03

Requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11, x64.