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Brad's picture
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Native OS X Color Chooser/Grabber?

While I'm coding CSS, what would be the easiest way for me to choose or grab colors and get their 3 or 6 digit code? Are there any plugins for TextWrangler or Safari (I know one exists for Firefox, but Firefox seems to eat up system resources on my Mac much faster then Safari). Without opening Photoshop or Dreamreaver, I was curious how this is done. Is there a lightweight method to finding colors? What do you use? What would you recommend? Keep in mind I need an OS X app, not Windows.

Thanks,
Brad

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Ivan's picture

It even adds the "color:#" part to the clipboard.

Sorry, this is not what you asked. :)

Jammo's picture

Hey after I posted, I found this....You forgot about this didnt you Ivan ;)

http://creativebits.org/2004/12/put-your-pixels-under-microscope.html

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Jammo's picture

Theres an AWESOME app that I use all the time, its called XScope http://www.iconfactory.com/xs_home.asp

believe me this will rock your world ;)

the features I use most :

- using screens to make sure my designs fit in 800 600 / 1024 etc
- color picker
- rulers
- guide line / cross hair lines

Its simply brilliant!!! (not free though but its not that expensive)

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Phosphor's picture
201 pencils

Have you considered the Digital Color Meter, which should be present on your hard drive already?

Ivan's picture

Phosphor! It works great! I'll have to blog it! :D

Brad's picture
22 pencils

Phosphor, you're my hero :) Can't thank you enough.

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