minimalmac: The other day, I wanted to find out the web safe color of a particular item on the screen of my Mac for a web design project I was working on. My first step was to go searching the Internet for such a tool (preferably free). Then, in the midst of said search, I was reminded that this little tool was not only already on my Mac, did exactly what I wanted, but also did it better than any of the tools I was able to find. To take your Digital Color Metering to the next level, you can drag the color off of the well on the right (next to the R G B labels) into any standard color picker to bring it over. Sometimes, you can even drop it straight into an object in another app! Give it a try: sample a color, press cmd-shift-h to hold it, then drag and drop from the swatch an object in Pages or Keynote. Edited: The shortcut to hold is command-shift-h, not command-h. Oops.

minimalmac:

The other day, I wanted to find out the web safe color of a particular item on the screen of my Mac for a web design project I was working on. My first step was to go searching the Internet for such a tool (preferably free). Then, in the midst of said search, I was reminded that this little tool was not only already on my Mac, did exactly what I wanted, but also did it better than any of the tools I was able to find.

To take your Digital Color Metering to the next level, you can drag the color off of the well on the right (next to the R G B labels) into any standard color picker to bring it over. Sometimes, you can even drop it straight into an object in another app!

Give it a try: sample a color, press cmd-shift-h to hold it, then drag and drop from the swatch an object in Pages or Keynote.

Edited: The shortcut to hold is command-shift-h, not command-h. Oops.

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    I’ve been meaning...post about digital colour meter...months...
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  5. msadouni reblogged this from minimalmac and added:
    use Pipette because...color’s hex code...Utilities...
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  8. caveim reblogged this from minimalmac and added:
    utility hiding right beneath my fingertips.
  9. appletite reblogged this from minimalmac and added:
    Update 2: I would also like to add that...you have Photoshop open, you can achieve
  10. douglashill reblogged this from minimalmac and added:
    about my Utilties folder....spatial data is corrupt as it often reverts
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  13. fholgado reblogged this from frijole and added:
    Oh. My. God. It even works on TextMate! Just drag the color onto your text and it gets inserted as a hex color, # symbol...
  14. tomborowski reblogged this from frijole and added:
    only thing I’d add is that the key combo...cmd-L, cmd-H just hides the app.