The Hex Color Picker is a very handy tool for web designers who code by hand and need to specify colors by hex code. It adds a sixth tab to OS X's standard Colors palette. The idea is basically that ...

Hex codes are a simple, unambiguous way to designate colors in digital media. However, going from a color in your head to a hex code can be difficult for the unpracticed. [Guy Dupont] built a little ...

' Named Colors Wheel ' is a useful color picker for web design, etc., which combines color codes and color names used to specify colors in HTML. Only 139 colors are grouped together in the Named ...

As I stated in my post HTML5 Date Picker, Opera 11 is ahead of some of the other non-beta web browsers in implementing some of the expected HTML5 tags. In this post, I look at Opera’s implementation ...

Skala for Mac isn’t ready for its public debut yet, but Bjango, makers of Skala Preview and iStat, have today released Skala Color, a free plugin for the OS X Color Picker that comes with useful ...

The next version of the Windows 10 PowerToys coming at the end of this month will introduce a new toy called 'Color Picker Tool' that lets you click on any portion of the screen and retrieve the ...

Adobe Illustrator is vector-graphics software that allows you to specify the stroke or fill color of a vector object using any of several different color systems, including hexadecimal color ...

Most days, I focus on a single product in Mac Gems; today I’m going to cover a couple plugins for Mac OS X that offer simple but useful features. Granted, Hex Color Picker is accessible only in ...

Have you ever wanted to match paint to the color of a pillow, or make a website where the primary color matches your favorite shade of electrolytic capacitor? Then ColorReplica is the project for you.