How to Pick Colors | Step-by-Step Color Picker Guide

Guide

How to pick a color

Five quick steps to grab any color | from the spectrum, an image, or a HEX, RGB or HSL value | and copy it in every format. Everything runs in your browser.

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Pick a color, step by step

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01Choose a picker

Use the left rail to choose how you want to pick: the spectrum, from an image, or by HEX, RGB or HSL. Whatever you pick stays in the shared result panel, so you can switch any time without losing your color.

02Set your color

Drag the spectrum, slide the RGB or HSL channels, type a hex code, or hover and click on an image. The image picker adds a magnifier loupe so you can land on the exact pixel you want.

03Copy any format

The result panel shows HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK at once. Each row has its own copy button | click it and the value goes to your clipboard, with a checkmark to confirm. Paste it straight into CSS, Figma or a print file.

04Pick from the screen

Need something outside the tool? The Pick from screen button opens your browser's eyedropper (Chrome and Edge) so you can sample any pixel anywhere on your display and load it straight into the panel.

05Build & export a palette

Every picker builds a palette: the image picker extracts the photo's dominant colors, and the others generate tints, shades and harmonies of your color. Click any swatch to load it, hit Copy all for every hex code, or PNG to download a labelled swatch sheet.

Ready to try it? Open the color picker and start with any tab | spectrum, image, HEX, RGB or HSL.

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