Helpful program to read RGB values for color?

Apr 03, 2013

Through this generous community, I found a free program to measure colors so I could match colors in any graphic or text and use this to maintain consistency in my color scheme. All you did was point the program at a color and the RGB color values appeared. Alas, with my family sharing my computer, this program seems to have disappeared and I cannot remember where to find it. My search on the forums did not yield it as well. I would love to find it again as it is simple but so incredibly useful. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks to all that contribute to these forums. You've helped me so much and it is one of the reasons I stay with Articulate.

13 Replies

Phil Mayor
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 12:44 am (UTC)

was it pixie?

Bruce Graham
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 2:45 am (UTC)

If it was Pixie it looked like this...

Rich Miller

11 years ago04/04/13 at 6:39 am (UTC)

I use ColorPix

Robin Wooten
Author

11 years ago04/04/13 at 7:48 am (UTC)

Thank you.

Phil Mayor
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 8:38 am (UTC)

Bruce Graham said:

If it was Pixie it looked like this...

Which should be differentiated from this type of Pixie

Bruce Graham
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 9:09 am (UTC)

That's just nasty.....

Bruce

But not as nasty as Easter Bunny who has had too much chocolate....

Phil Mayor
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 9:19 am (UTC)

Ooooh that is Bad

Holly MacDonald
Hero

11 years ago04/04/13 at 11:42 am (UTC)

I see he has great big pointy teeth. But how far can he jump?

BTW - another colour option (for websites) is a chrome extension called ColorZilla http://www.colorzilla.com/

Another fab chrome extension I use is What Font. http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html

Holly

Amr Zaghloul

11 years ago04/04/13 at 12:28 pm (UTC)

I'm using Adobe Photoshop to detect the RGB, of course it is easy and very accurate.

Robin Wooten
Author

11 years ago04/04/13 at 11:46 pm (UTC)

Thanks all. One further question: I just tried Pixie and ColorPix (right price range). Why do they seem to be picking up the background below the colors? Am I doing something wrong?

Tracy Parish
Hero

11 years ago04/08/13 at 1:06 pm (UTC)

Here's a great tool I've been playing with lately for playing with colour schemes and for getting RGB from HEX.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

another favourite is:

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html great for HEX to RGB and visa versa. (simpler format)

http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/ For colour scheme inspiration.

Daniel Lynn

11 years ago04/08/13 at 2:56 pm (UTC)

Color Cop is a really quick RGB value fetcher. It runs on top so you can grab values from anywhere on screen. It's perfectly accurate. It sounds like the one you are looking for Robin. And Adobe has a color scheme generator called Kuler that's pretty cool... Both are FREE, Safe and Reliable.

Above is the links to the tools. Kuler also has an introduction page here.

http://colorcop.net/

https://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler.html

It's cool to see the other tools people are using.