Using the MacOS Built-In Color Picker | Notes

A quick note on using the built-in MacOS color picker to sample colors under your cursor in different output value formats like hexadecimal and rgb.

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:

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

Quick and easy!