Hex Color Picker

By Mat Lu

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 you can select the color you want by one of the other means (crayon box, color wheel, etc.) then click over to the Hex tab, shoot the color hex to the clipboard and then just paste it into your code. In addition you can use the magnifying glass (eye dropper) to get the hex code of any color on your screen. So, for instance, you can see on the right the hex code for TUAW blue (in our logo).

The Hex Color Picker is open source and a free download from waffle software.

[via FreeMacWare]

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