color picker utility

Question

I am looking for a free color picker utility on windows. Anything simple and easy to use.

Answer 1

Pixie is very cool. Its a tiny color picker with a mouse tracker.

Answer 2

If you use Firefox, there's an extension called ColorZilla to grab a color from any webpage. Great for web development.

Answer 3

I have a number of web-based color picking tools and references organized in my Delicious account. Help yourself.

Answer 4

Adobe's Kuler is excellent. It's web-based, so it will certainly work on windows, if that's what you mean.

Answer 5

You can even pick a color with Paint under Windows.

• Open the image with Paint
• Select the pipette tool
• Click onto the pixel you want to pick the color from
• Open the menu "Colors" and open the dialog for adapting the palette
• Extend the dialog and you will see the rgb color components

Answer 6

I like ColorCop fairly well.

Answer 7

I use ColorPic

Answer 8

MWSnap is good one.

Answer 9

Another option is Instant Eyedropper

Answer 10

ColorPicker.com is great if you don't want to install anything. I also like the color picker plugin for notepad++ (go to downloads, then plugins to get the dll).

Answer 11

As you can see, they are a dime the dozen... I tried a number, I like DotColor and ColorPic, among many others. Zoom+ is quite usable for this, too.

Answer 12

Just do it in C and win32 api. It needs 5 minutes....

Answer 13

Colr.org. Web-based and lets you pick a color scheme from image.

Answer 14

ColorMania is a very useful colorpicker for windows.

Answer 15

This is the simplest one i know

http://www.chunting.com/