Color Snapper: "The missing color picker for Mac OS X"

Hm… Digital Color Meter lives in /Applications/Utilities and works pretty much the same way. Cmd-Shift-C to copy to clipboard.<p>EDIT: Also, DCM lets you adjust the size of the loupe, which is handy for getting the aggregate when there's a slight variation in pixels (grain textures and the like)

Cool little utility, but €3.99 works out to US$5.50 for me. OS X includes the DigitalColor Meter app by default, which -- as far as I can tell -- has most of the functionality shown here. From what I can tell, the advantages include a global keyboard shortcut and a menubar item, rather than an app window. Can you tell us if there is any other significant difference?

On a related note, for anyone using TextMate, try hitting Cmd-Shift-C while editing css. It will popup a color picker right there for you. Really handy.

Colors by Matt Patenaude is my favorite color picker [it's free!].<p><a href="http://mattpatenaude.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mattpatenaude.com/</a><p>Supports these formats: <a href="http://grab.by/9tc3" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/9tc3</a> and also copies to your clipboard with a button <a href="http://grab.by/9tcg" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/9tcg</a>.

Windows and Linux users can try this one (color logic was done by smarter people than me btw): <a href="http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace" rel="nofollow">http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace</a><p>I know that the OS X build crashes. People complain about upgrades even when they are not paying.

I've been using iColors which is a standalone system color picker - <a href="http://www.fadingred.com/icolors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fadingred.com/icolors/</a><p>I use it in conjunction with various plugins to said system color picker such as <a href="http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/" rel="nofollow">http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/</a> and <a href="http://lithoglyph.com/mondrianum/" rel="nofollow">http://lithoglyph.com/mondrianum/</a>. It is very nice that the OS X system color picker supports adding plugins to /Library/ColorPickers because then you have support for new color picker panels in every program that uses the System Color Picker.

Might want to hold off buying this until they fix the segfault:<p><pre><code> 3/14/11 1:56:33 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[255] ([0x0-0x428428].com.koolesache.ColorSnapper[26028]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault </code></pre> As it stands, I can't launch it at all.

You can also make your own with the standard Mac color picker. Open up AppleScript Editor, and type this:<p><pre><code> choose color </code></pre> From there, File -&#62; Save As, and choose the "Application" file format. Done!

Looks good - might be an idea to include the price on your page though.

Alternative - Developer Color Picker (plugin for the standard OS X color picker) <a href="http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/</a>

Use Spot Color + Developer Color Picker + Hex Color Picker!<p><a href="http://zachwaugh.com/spotcolor/" rel="nofollow">http://zachwaugh.com/spotcolor/</a> <a href="http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/</a> <a href="http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/" rel="nofollow">http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/</a><p>All free plugins using Mac OS X Color Picker.

The biggest problem with the built in color meter, is that it puts the '#' in front of the hex color when copying to the keyboard. This makes it impossible to paste in applications that are expecting no more than 6 characters. e.g. #[______] then when you paste you get #[#28382]<p>I switched to colibri for this reason. Does this application suffer the same drawback?

Here's a free Hex Color Picker that 'works for me' - <a href="http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/" rel="nofollow">http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/</a><p>I run it through Alfred - cmd+space -&#62; type "color picker" and it's in the selected pane.

You know something is a bubble when people will pay $5 for xmag.