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Color Picker

Pick colors from a visual selector, screen, or image and inspect values in multiple formats.

Color Picker

Pick a color, sample your screen or image, and copy accurate color values.

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Pick a Color

Choose a method and select your color.

Quick Colors
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Color Values

All formats update instantly.

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Recent Colors

Kept in this browser session.

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Color Palette Generator

Useful harmonies generated from your selected color.

?How it works

  1. Choose the visual picker, eyedropper, or an image.
  2. Select a color and review every format.
  3. Copy a value or use a generated palette.

✓Your Privacy, Our Priority

  • Image and color processing stays in your browser.
  • Nothing is uploaded or permanently stored.

▣Features

  • HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, and LAB
  • Opacity, image sampling, history, and palettes
Practical guide

Using Color Picker with confidence

Reviewed by LipiCode Editorial Team

What this tool helps you do

A colour picker samples or constructs a colour and reports usable channel values. Sampling is precise for the displayed pixels, but the perceived colour also depends on surrounding colours, display calibration, profiles, and transparency.

When it is useful

  • Sampling a UI screenshot
  • Choosing a CSS colour
  • Comparing channel values
  • Building a quick swatch

A practical example

Sample several pixels from an anti-aliased edge rather than assuming one edge pixel is the intended source colour. Confirm the selected solid fill in the original design file when available.

Limitations and common mistakes

Screenshots may be colour-managed or compressed, and transparent pixels blend with their background. A sampled colour does not include typography or contrast requirements.

Frequently asked questions

Why do neighbouring pixels differ?

Anti-aliasing, shadows, compression, gradients, and transparency create intermediate colours.

Can a picked colour be used for accessible text?

Only after testing its contrast against the actual background and text size.

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