ArsGeek

Ever needed to know what was a certain color wherever on your screen? Many applications already exists to let you know the color of a certain pixel on the screen, but everyone has their favorite one.

Mine is Color Cop. The application itself is well-done and has lived through ages. Jay Prall first released it in 1999, and I discovered it a couple of years ago. Using it never grew old on me as it was and is still a breeze to use. You simply drag the picker from the application to your color and you’re done. There’s even a magnifier to more precisely select your color when a bunch of pixels are not the same one. You can also get the average color of a bunch of pixels if needs be.

There are other features like the complementary color palette, which shows you 42 colors that might fit with the one selected and the history of picked colors. Other than that, you can head over Color Cop’s website to watch an animated gif of it in action and, hopefully, download it and use it. Sadly, it’s windows-only. In the linux world I used gcolor2, not knowing anything better.

Have fun picking colors!