Comments on: Colors is a Free Color Picker Tool to Replace DigitalColor Meter in Mac OS X Lion

By: James

James — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:10:32 +0000

CMYK colour picker for a screen? That doesn’t really make sense

Any application that uses CMYK will allow you to input RGBA values.

By: Get Hexadecimal Color Codes with Digital Color Meter in OS X Lion

Get Hexadecimal Color Codes with Digital Color Meter in OS X Lion — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:11:14 +0000

[...] few months ago I wrote about an alternative to DigitalColor Meter for OS X Lion, with my main complaint being that the color picker tool removed the ability to get [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:06:08 +0000

// Apple’s Digital Color Meter utility took a turn for the worse in Mac OS X Lion, inexplicably removing the ability to view color values in commonly used formats like hex. //

Well, that isn’t entiiiierly true. In fact, it’s quite easy to use it and to grab the hexcode ”on-the-fly”.

- – -

In the menu: View->Display >> (as Decimal… as Hexadecimal… as Percentage)

Just chose ”as Hexadecimal” – then you can just grab the code with: ⇧⌘C

When you paste it in your CSS-file or style-tag, it comes out as: #012345

To make it even easier – go to Systemprefs->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts. In the left column pick ”Application shortcuts”. Add 3 new ones like:
as Decimal ⌘1
as Hexadecimal ⌘2
as Percentage ⌘3

(text of the label must exactly match the menu item)

Now it’s easy to switch between the modes, and sometimes it’s good to get the rgb value as well. Now you know you’re not stucked.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:39:31 +0000

Thanks a lot! Does the job as quickly as it used to be!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:10:12 +0000

You, sir, are a golden god.

By: Adam Chew

Adam Chew — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:21:42 +0000

It’s the ecosystem, stupid.

By: Jac

Jac — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:24:40 +0000

Cool app, but where is CMYK?

Thanks!

By: setnan

setnan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:11:55 +0000

Maybe one of my old app will interest peeps (essentially developers) who wants to get color values formatted as text. It’s downloadable directly from website and FREE ! i really pay attention to any suggestion/request.. so if any just ask No problem reported under Lion (im still under Snow)

http://setnan.org/mac/rainbowpicker/

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:10:44 +0000

Apple removed that because Apple has stopped to care about people that *work* with computer…

By: Dear Apple... (@_dearapple)

Dear Apple... (@_dearapple) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:42:13 +0000

This is not a replacement, Classic Color Meter is. However it’s a $.99 investment. I wrote about the whole Color Picker thing http://dear-apple.com/please-bring-the-old-digitalcolor-meter-back