What is the most lightweight software to find out the hex value of an image pixel? [closed]

Question

Sometimes I saw some good-looking images and would like to know the hex value of a particular pixel which can be used in CSS.

But launching Photoshop for doing such a simple thing is no good, is there any light-weight alternative?

Answer 1

If you're finding images on the web then the Colorzilla extension for Firefox is quite good.

I've just installed Pendule for Google Chrome 4 and while it does a whole lot more, the colour picker element works very well.

Answer 2

GetColor (114 kb)

You simply move the eyedropper tool to the desired area, and the program displays the color value. It supports RGB, HEX, HTML and WinAPI values, all of which can be copied to the clipboard.

Answer 3

Pixie is fantastic!

Highlight the color you want and then you;ve got various keyboard shortcuts to copy the color in hex, RBG, etc.

I can't remember for sure but I think I first got this from Lifehacker...

From their website:

Run it, simply point to a color and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected color in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current coordinates of your mouse pointer.

Answer 4

On a Mac there is the Digital Color Meter built in.

Gnome has a menubar button to do this.

Answer 5

MouseZoom

is a nice but small utility. It zooms the current mouse position (50x) and shows the color value (RGB, HEX, HLS, CMYK) and the absolute and relative position of the point where the mouse is.

MouseZoom is magnifier, color dropper and distance analyser. MouseZoom is Freeware.

Download is 32kb.

Answer 6

On my PC, I use ColorMania from BlackSun Software, as well as ColorZilla inside of Firefox.