Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Developer
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.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
macxprt said 5:09PM on 7-17-2009
Those dudes at Panic ROCK!
Reply
Dave said 5:09PM on 7-17-2009
Amazing. I've installed it and love it already.
Thanks for the great find Rob.
Reply
alex said 5:20PM on 7-17-2009
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/
Reply
Wooster said 7:31PM on 7-17-2009
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.
Reply
henrik said 4:34AM on 7-18-2009
There is also http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/, which only does hex.
Reply