Colors

[smaragdus]

Preamble
There are good free and portable colour pickers and palette managers but when I came upon a new promising tool I usually share it with the community.

Synopsis

A simple application for managing color palettes.
This program was made for my private use, but it may also be useful to someone.

Features

• Colour picker - picked colours are shown in different colour formats- RGB, CMYK, HTML, BGR, HSL, C++ HEX, Pascal HEX, Pascal INT;
• Colour values can be pasted from clipboard;
• Preview with sample text;
• Unlimited number of picked colours can be added to palettes, which can be saved to file;
• Context menu in Color palette- Select all colors, Remove selected colors, Clear palette;
• Built-in sample palettes;
• Stay on top;

Links
Website
Software
News
Publisher - GitHub
Publisher
Twitter
Softpedia

Downloads
Direct Download Link

Images

Colors version 1.0 Beta 2 - program window:



Colors version 1.0 Beta 2 - color:



Colors version 1.0 Beta 2 - color palette - context menu:



Colors version 1.0 Beta 2 - color picker:



Portability
Colors (as of version 1.0 Beta 2) is portable by design- settings are saved in INI file (Colors.ini) inside program folder.

Instructions

• Download the archive (Colors.zip);
• Extract the archive to a folder of your choice;
• Run the executable (Colors.exe);

Requirements
Colors should run on WIndows XP or higher.

License
I couldn't find any license information, I suppose that Colors is unrestricted freeware (donations accepted).

Note
Once I had an argument with the developer- Jacek Pazera, but of course I respect his work.
The program is not big- 3.28 MB uncompressed and it is not heavy on resources- on my machine it uses about 17 MB of RAM.
I created a tiny gallery.

Alternatives

• ColorMania
• Color Warlock

Details
File details for Colors version 1.0 Beta 2 (released on 2018-05-09):

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Name: Colors.zip
File Size: 1337452 Byte(s) (1.28 MB)
Modified Date: 2018-05-09 03:20
MD5: e29c69c2bf0730f7d083beea3e832ac5
SHA1: acf194c544bb359c4e77bc3ac19f99218ea1b5c7
SHA256: f70cf2d384f84b30296810f3dd3fac3b75e4deb0a86892a5a412ee94b10fb658
SHA512: 9cd9ba2c6760549a22fac7dc9fd777923479c22b2bb2e91edf614d217801a1f806893cb639d7335a2c60bb597712dd81f807edfba2f49f55d56fb103768421b9

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[FileHandler]

Kudos to smaragdus for this comprehensive introduction.

I am not much impressed by the program itself, however. What I like about it is the sample preview in the bottom-left corner with the text color in shades of gray from white to black. That's a feature I have seen nowhere else so far.

Other than that, it compares poorly with the other alternatives I've been using over the years.
Color picking is a tedious procedure with many unnecessary clicks, it doesn't let me pick a custom text color, no sliders or color wheels to quickly mix/adjust custom colors. Tiny fonts in the list, not customizable, not zoomable. It remembers almost nothing from call to call, not the last used palette, not the drill-down states of the sections on the left side. The layout of screen elements wastes a lot of real estate.

[smaragdus]

@FileHandler
The program is in early development (still Beta). If you have ideas and suggestions for enhancements I suppose you may contact the developer directly.