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ColorSnatch

A lightweight desktop color picker and color editor utility .

Overview

A lightweight desktop color picker and color editor utility

Features:

Color formats and conversion

  • Wide range of color code formats: RGB, HEX, HSL, CMYK, RGB Decimal and HSV/HSB

  • Convert color codes between formats (developer/designer friendly)

  • Harmonious color scheme generator

Cursor and magnification

  • 3x, 6x and 9x magnification cursor preview
  • Ctrl + Arrows hotkeys for precise cursor movement

Color management

  • Color list for saving, cataloguing and re-using picked colors
    • Save or load color lists to and from an external file
    • Load colors from a CSS file
    • Assign name or notes to any saved color
    • Remove duplicates from color list
    • Auto-name colors (auto-generates names for new colors or renames existing colors using a color dictionary)

Interaction and usability

  • Optional stay-on-top behavior
  • Optional capture color on mouse click
  • Copy any color code to the clipboard

Advanced features

  • Screen freeze (freezes screen updates to sample color of elements that change on mouse-hover)
  • Point lock (monitor color at set screen location independently of cursor movement)
  • Averaged color sampling for better color noise handling
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Downloads

Download current and archived versions of ColorSnatch

Minimum Requirements

  • Windows 10 or later, macOS coming soon
  • 50 MB of available disk space

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