System Color Picker

The familiar color picker supercharged

The macOS color picker as an app with lots of extra features.

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Requires macOS 13 or later.

Older versions

1.12.1 for macOS 12+
1.9.6 for macOS 11+

Non-App Store version

A special version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won't receive updates.

Download (1.13.0 · macOS 13+)

Features

Quickly copy, paste, and convert colors in Hex, HSL, RGB, LCH format
Show as a normal app or in the menu bar
Pick a color or toggle the window from anywhere with a global keyboard shortcut
Make the window stay on top of all other windows
Launch it at login (when in the menu bar)
Recently picked colors
Shortcuts support
Hide menu bar icon

Tips

Press the Space key while using the color sampler to show the RGB values. The color sampler is a system component and it can unfortunately not show other kinds of color values.
Press the Option key when copying the Hex color to invert whether to include #.

Keyboard shortcuts

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts in the app:

Pick color: Command p
Copy as Hex: Shift Command h
Copy as HSL: Shift Command s
Copy as RGB: Shift Command r
Copy as LCH: Shift Command l
Paste color: Shift Command v (In the format Hex, HSL, RGB, or LCH)

Plugins

The built-in color picker supports plugins:

Screenshots

FAQ

The app does not show up in the menu bar

macOS hides menu bar apps when there is no space left in the menu bar. This is a common problem on MacBooks with a notch. Try quitting some menu bar apps to free up space. If this does not solve it, try quitting Bartender if you have it installed.

What is LCH color?

It's a more human-friendly color format.

Note that the LCH color is currently clamped to sRGB range.

The color changes if I copy and then paste it

That is because the default color space in the picker is Display P3, which is part of CSS Color 4, but the color space used for the legacy CSS color formats is sRGB (browsers are starting to handle color spaces but they are not all there yet).

How do I change the color space?

Right-click the color wheel. You probably want to select “sRGB”.

Note that the color strings will always be converted to sRGB color space.

Can you support `SwiftUI.Color` / `UIColor` / `NSColor` formats?

The best practice is to use Asset Catalog for colors instead of hard-coding the values in code. If you really want to hard-code colors, the Scala color picker plugin supports UIColor and NSColor.

Can I contribute localizations?

I don't have any immediate plans to localize the app.

Built with

Defaults - Swifty and modern UserDefaults
Regex - Swifty regular expressions
KeyboardShortcuts - Add user-customizable global keyboard shortcuts to your macOS app
LaunchAtLogin - Add “Launch at Login” functionality to your macOS app

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