Developer Color Picker: For your pickiest developer

Wade Cosgrove, code ninja over at Panic, has released a freeware Developer Color Picker that helps developers of all stripes pick and paste color declarations for a variety of languages.

Any color picker will let you choose a color from anywhere on your screen, but Developer Color Picker turns that into usable code for your Xcode and web development projects. Developer Color Picker generates code suitable for NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML declarations.

Depending on what you want, you can copy just the value for the color itself, or an entire declaration including the color. Imagine the time you save not having to type UIColor *aColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.282 green:0.569 blue:0.894 alpha:1.000]; again!

Developer Color Picker is available on Panic's website.

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Source: http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/

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henrik

There is also http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/, which only does hex.

July 18 2009 at 4:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wooster

Colors 'almost' had the right idea. It found a hole that needed to be filling. Unfortunately, it doesn't integrate with Pixelmator, Photoshop, Coda or any other application you likely already have open when you need text values for color.

July 17 2009 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alex

I like Matt Patenaude's 'Colors' app. A really simple program that allows you to get colours from anywhere on the screen and copy the hexadecimal and rgb(a) values. Not so handy for programmers but great for web developers.

http://mattpatenaude.com/

July 17 2009 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

Amazing. I've installed it and love it already.

Thanks for the great find Rob.

July 17 2009 at 5:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

macxprt

Those dudes at Panic ROCK!

July 17 2009 at 5:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply