If you need the color code corresponding to any color you don’t need to have any color picking software installed in your PC. You can use online color pickers to get the color codes in HEX and other formats so that it can be used in our templates/CSS, HTML and anywhere the color code equivalent is required to be entered.
This is a online color picker which allows you to select a base color and displays its variant shades in 4 x 4 grid. There is no sliders available to fine tune the selection.
A very basic color picker which has single rainbow colorselection option and textbox which gives the corresponding HEX codes
This is an amazing online color picker which has many features and nice interface.
Features
- To sort picked colors, click color chart column header or footer. It is possible to sort colors by their Number, Lightness, Name, HEX value, Smart value, Web safe value or Description.
- Note that Smart and Web Safe color values are less precise since they are only approximations.
- Point a cursor over the color wheel or palette to pick a color or select an appropriate color range.
- Favorite colors toolbar fixes the color values of 20 most recently picked colors. Also, allows to choose from predefined basic colors (Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow).
- In color picker gradient mode it is possible to choose gradient steps – 8, 16 or 24.
- Click C (copy) in Edit column of color list to copy color HEX code to clipboard.
- Click R (remove) to remove picked color from color table.
- Click D (description) to edit color description.
There are four additional color tables – 16 color chart, X11 color chart, Netscape color chart and Safe color chart.
This site provides ‘Testing Site’ side by side which gives live preview after selecting the colors. Color selection is grid based (13×18) so no fine tuning option available.
This site is meant mainly for the photoshop/illustrator artists who are very much comfortable with the color blending tools. The blend colors can be saved and downloaded in Photoshop color table format or illustrator format.
Update: The ColorBlender site seems to be down when I checked at 2009-09-13
Have I missed any of your favorite color pickers? Mention in the comments
