TakeColor

TakeColor is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you pick any color from your screen and view its value in HTML, RGB, or HEX format. It can be deployed on all Windows platforms out there.

This is a portable tool which makes it the perfect candidate for being stored on USB flash drives or other portable devices. Gaining access to its features requires only opening the executable file (there’s no setup included in the process). You may uninstall it via a simple deletion task, as it leaves no traces in your Windows registry.

You are welcomed by a clean and small display that allows you to set up the dedicated parameters in a short amount of time. There’s support for a help manual that includes short descriptions about the utility’s functions.

Picking a color from your screen can be simply done by moving the mouse cursor to the desired position. Getting the corresponding HTML, RGB, or HEX format can be accomplished by pressing a predefined hotkey.

What’s more, you are allowed to reassign the hotkey, view the mouse coordinates displayed directly in the main window, check out a preview of the selected screen color, keep a history with multiple colors (you may store up to five items), as well as copy the results to the clipboard so you can quickly paste data into other third-party programs.

You can enable or disable the zooming mode and make the main window remain on top of other applications. Tests have shown that TakeColor carries out a task quickly. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so you can keep it running the background without worrying that it hampers your computer’s performance.

All things considered, TakeColor comes with support for several handy features for helping you find out HTML, RGB, and HEX color values, and is suitable especially for web designers.