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Free portable offline color picker and color editor for web designers and digital artists

While taking part in any routine, graphic designers, digital artists and webmasters often see colors and color combinations they would like to use in their projects. With Just Color Picker, identifying the colours, saving, editing and combining them into beautiful color combinations is a quick and simple job. Unlike many other apps, Just Color Picker was created by a person who actually uses it on an everyday basis. It is software for designers and digital artists created by a designer and digital artist.

Just Color Picker, main window

Just Color Picker features:

Extensive range of color code formats: HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, HSL, HWB, CMY, CMYK and Delphi.
Averaged color sampling for easy handling of color noise.
3x, 9x and 15x magnifier and keyboard control of the mouse cursor movements for greater precision.
Screen freeze feature for sampling the color of the elements that change on mouse-hover.
Calculation of the pixel distance between points.
Color list for saving and re-using the selected colors.
The ability to open, edit and save Adobe Photoshop .aco color swatches (Adobe color files) and GIMP .gpl palette files.
Interaction with the standard Windows and macOS color dialogs.
User comments and notes for any selected color.
Conversion of HTML/Hexadecimal and RGB color codes into the corresponding colors.
Red-Green-Blue (RGB), Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (CMY) and Red-Yellow-Blue (RYB) color wheels with marked triads and complementary colors.
Harmonious color scheme generator.
RGB, HSV and HSL color editors for adjusting and editing colors.
Gradient transition between any two colors for creating a wide range of in-between hues.
Text tool for evaluating the readability of the selected font and background color combinations.
CSS-compatible color codes.
Optional stay-on-top behavior.
User-defined hotkeys.
Copying the color code to the clipboard with one mouse click or automatically.
High-DPI awareness.
Multi-display support.
No installation required. Just Color Picker is a portable application and can be run directly from a USB stick.
Multilingual interface: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Uyghur.

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Supported platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 - 32 and 64 bit; macOS X 10.6.6 or later - 64 bit. Portable, no installation required.

For Windows 95, 98, ME or NT Just Color Picker v2.1 is still available for downloading in the below, so is the 32-bit version 5.1 for macOS.

License: freeware.

What's new in v5.2: added CMY format, improved input check for code-to-colour conversion, upgraded macOS file from 32 to 64 bit.

Minor updates for v5.2:
1 Feb 2019: improved compatibility with macOS Mojave dark mode.

Please note: some software websites wrap the original program files into their own installers, which may contain unwanted add-ons, annoying adware or even malicious software.. Only downloading the program directly from the site can guarantee that you are getting an original, clean, portable color picker file without any unwanted additions.

Can Just Color Picker be used in a commercial environment (for example, in a professional design studio)?

Yes. You can use Just Color Picker wherever you like, provided you comply with the copyright conditions.

We would like to publish a note about your software in a magazine/ include your software into cover CD/ publish on a website/ etc and want to ask your permission.

Just Color Picker has no limits on its usage and distribution as long as the program file is not modified in any way (including its incorporation into any downloaders or installers, or addition of advertisement) and you comply with the copyright section. You can share this software with friends and colleagues, burn it onto CDs, DVDs or other media, include it onto cover CDs, publish notes in magazines, write articles on other website, share the information about it via social media, or upload it to software archives without asking permission. Your efforts in making this little program more popular and any additional links to website website are appreciated.

I like your free software. What can I do for you?

You can help to make Just Color Picker more widely used by recommending it to your friends and colleagues, or by adding comments and reviews about Just Color Picker on the sites and social media you use. You can also support some of the causes I deeply care about.

If you have 15-20 minutes of free time and are fluent in any language other than English, you can help other users by translating its interface, or by correcting, completing and improving the existing translations.

Version History

Version	Release Date	What's New
5.2	22 Jan 2019	Added CMY format; improved input check for code-to-color conversion; upgraded macOS file from 32 to 64 bit.
5.1	19 March 2018	Improved handling of high DPI screens; corrected cursor positioning in multi-screen setups; added 7x7 pixel averaged color sampling. This is the last 32-bit macOS version: download Just Color Picker 5.1 (dmg), size 1.81 MB
5.0	15 Jan 2018	Improved handling of larger system fonts; added HWB and RGB Integer color formats; added Screen Freeze feature for sampling the color of the elements that change on mouse-hover (Windows only).
4.6	May 11, 2016	Added automatic copying of the latest-picked color code to the clipboard; improved support of Grayscale and CMYK color spaces in .aco files; comments for identical colors are now combined into one line separated by semicolons.
4.5	9 March 2016	Added the option to display and copy CSS-compatible color codes for Hexadecimal/HTML, RGB and HSL formats; added interaction with the standard Windows or macOS color dialog.
4.4	23 Nov 2015	Added support of PageUp/PageDown keys for zooming in and out; added moving the mouse cursor with keyboard: Option/Alt + ArrowKeys (macOS only).
4.3	19 Mar 2015	Added the ability to re-order the color entries in the color list using mouse drag-and-drop; added the calculation of the horizontal and vertical distance between the two latest-picked pixels - convenient for measuring the size of objects and gaps; improved adaptability of the interface font size; added Delphi TColor code format.
4.2	16 Oct 2014	Ability to open, edit and save Photoshop's .aco color swatches (Adobe Color files) and GIMP's .gpl palette files.
4.1	1 Oct 2014	Improved precision of the color code calculation; new color scheme generator.
4.0	8 Jul 2014	Added CMYK color format; improved multiple monitor support: now the primary monitor can be either side; released macOS version.
3.5	10 Apr 2014	Added multiple monitors support; added moving the mouse cursor with keyboard: Ctrl + ArrowKeys ; fixed two bugs: always-black current color area on Windows 7, and the application becoming unresponsive when the Stay-on-Top option was enabled.
3.4	20 March 2014	Added high-DPI screen support; added HTML color list files. The program has been completely re-written to keep up with the modern devices and systems. New icon - Picky the Chameleon. Like Just Color Picker, he is small, quick, good-looking, and knows a lot about colors and color matching! :-)
3.3	3 Oct 2013	Added standard HSL color editor; fixed a minor bug in HSL color format; the Text tool now can display bold headers.
3.2	25 March 2013	Added standard HSL color format to complement the existing HSL(255) and HSL(240).
3.1	19 Jan 2013	Added the option to always open the same color history file on start; fixed the issue of flickering zoom area, the current color area, mouse cursor coordinates and color code.
3.0	17 Oct 2012	Added Text Tool - great for evaluating the readability of the selected font and background color combinations; added creation of .ini files via command line key.
2.6	1 Sep 2011	Added full red-green-blue (RGB) and red-yellow-blue (RYB) color wheels with user-defined number of colors can be created for each selected color.
2.5	May 9, 2011	Added averaged color picking, to make it easy to pick colors in the areas with color noise.
2.4	4 Feb 2010	Added the ability to add a comment for each selected color.
2.2	1 Nov 2009	Just Color Picker became Unicode, so all languages should now be displayed correctly. If some parts of the interface are not displayed in your language, it means the translation is old or incomplete. You can help by. Please note: Windows 95, 98, ME and NT do not support Unicode. If you are still using any of those, you should download the last non-Unicode Just Color Picker version 2.1: Just Color Picker 2.1 (exe) , Just Color Picker 2.1 (zip)
1.9	1 Jun 2008	Added multilingual interface; added HSV color editor; added new color history features.
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0.1	2003	The first version of the Color Picker. If was a very small and simple; just a color picker.

Use the color picker by clicking and dragging your cursor inside the picker area to highlight a color on the right. Input Hex, RGB, HSL or CMYK values to search for a particular color in the fields below the color swatch; click the swatch to add it to your palette. After selecting a color, experiment with different harmonies by using the dropdown below the color picker.

Color Harmonies

Color harmonies are particularly pleasing combinations of two or more colors derived from their relationship on a color wheel. Also known as color chords, color harmonies are useful when exploring a possible color palette, or can be used as a standalone color scheme.

Complementary colors

Colors that are directly opposite one another on the color wheel are known as complementary colors. Complementary colors have a high contrast and can be very effective as accent colors when paired with a more neutral palette.

Triadic colors

Triadic harmonies consist of three colors equidistant from one another on the color wheel. Like complementary colors, triadic schemes tend to be very bright with a high contrast and work best when one color dominates.

Tetradic colors

Tetradic color harmonies are formed by two sets of complementary colors 60 degrees apart on the color wheel. Tetradic schemes are an excellent starting point for creating color palettes; fine tune them using color shades, tints and tones.

Analogous colors

Analogous harmonies are created by selecting the colors directly adjacent to a chosen color. Frequently found in web design, analogous schemes, when paired with a complementary color for contrast, can offer great versatility.

Neutral colors

Neutral schemes, like analogous harmonies, are formed by taking the colors on either side of a chosen color but at half the distance. While analogous schemes typically use colors 30 degrees apart, neutral harmonies use colors 15 degrees apart.

Color Shades, Tints and Tones

Color shades, tints and tones are created by adding black, white and gray respectively to a chosen color. They can be very useful in web design for backgrounds and typography, and are often paired with a complementary color for contrast. Try them with your own color using the dropdown menu below the color picker.

Color shades

Adding black in varying levels to a color produces gradually darker variants, or "shades", of that particular color. Shades work well for link hover effects, or as footer and header backgrounds.

Color tints

Color tints are made by adding white to a color, resulting in increasingly lighter versions. Tints can also be used for CSS hover effects, and perform nicely as modal backgrounds.

Color tones

Tones are created by adding gray to a color, and produces an almost endless variety of colors depending on what level of gray is used. Less common in web design, tones could be useful for typographic elements like comments, quotes or highlights.

Just Color Picker a convenient application for quickly determining the color of a screen point. The program will be useful for both web designers and digital graphics developers.

The Just Color Picker utility is a very convenient tool that can specify the color of a specific point on the screen in one click and save the value in hexadecimal, RGB or other code format.

Just Color Picker supports color encodings:

HTML: #F5F5F5
RGB: RGB(130, 153, 49)
HEX: 0x829931
HSB/HSV: 73° 68% 60%
HSL: hsl(73, 51%, 40%)
CMYK: 15 0 68 40
Delphi: $319982

The application takes up little disk space and is provided as a portable version. The program uses a minimum of system resources, is stable in operation and supports many interface languages.

Using Just Color Picker

After launch, the utility is immediately ready to work. It is a small window with a mini-display in which the display of the screen area you specify is duplicated. You can control the scale of the mini-view: 3, 9 or 15 times magnification.

To define the color and place the code in your set, use the keyboard shortcut “Alt + X” (by default). You can set your own hotkeys in the Just Color Picker options.

A useful feature of the program is the function of determining the average color value of an adjacent area of several pixels.

Available color selection areas:

Fine: 1 pixel
Average: 3x3 pixels
Average: 5x5 pixels

Once placed in a set, the screen dot color code can be converted to any of the supported encoding formats.

In the utility settings, you can also specify the option to display the program window - on top of all active windows.

Quick HTML Color Picker is a free color picker tool for Windows. You can pick any color from your computer screen. It picks the color for you and shows you the RGB and HTML code of that color. These code values are very important for web designers as they use them in their coding. It is very small in size and is easy to use.