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 ...

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 ...

One of the greatest thing about Cocoa technology is the system wide color picker: I can’t even remember how many times that thing came in handy while working, and that’s even people who can’t stand it ...

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 ...

There are many applications out there to help you sample, pick, and convert colors to hex code numbers for use in HTML and CSS (for example, white is #FFFFFF). In fact, earlier this year we covered ...

PowerToys is continually evolving, introducing new tools and features to enhance user experience within the Windows environment. Color Picker is part of the suite of tools offered by PowerToys. It is ...

Microsoft this week will release a new color picker utility for PowerToys, the Windows 95 power-user feature it rebooted as an open-source project for Windows 10 last year. The project behind ...

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 ...