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Using the MacOS Built-In Color Picker

There are many paid apps to color pick and sample color under your cursor. MacOS actually has a built-in app called: Digital Color Meter. You can find it in Spotlight, it’s installed under /Applications/Utilities.

You only need to know the following to start sampling color your cursor is hovering over:

  1. Select the output value type under: View > Display Values. For web development purposes I usually set it to hexadecimal.
  2. (optional) using cmd + l you can lock the current position.
  3. Use shift+cmd+c to copy the color to your clipboard.

Quick and easy!


 

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