Digital Color Meter

Working on various graphic design projects often involves grabbing colors from the desktop or certain applications. A small, easy-to-use color picker can certainly come in handy, as using a complex editing tool for this purpose is not always ideal.

Digital Color Meter is an open-source application that makes it easy to pick specific colors from your screen and copy their RGB or HEX codes to the clipboard. Moreover, it enables you to create a color list and copy the codes all at once.

While the application is in the foreground, you can move the mouse cursor to any location on your screen and press Space to add the selected color to a list. The program extracts both the RBG and HEX codes, and you can copy either of them to the clipboard at any time.

Digital Color Meter enables you to copy any color to the clipboard instantly by just pressing Ctrl+C, provided the application is in the foreground. When doing so, you need to specify whether the RBG or HEX code should be extracted.

Once you have added a color to the list, you can access it at any time and copy the HEX or RGB code, as well as only the red, green or blue value. However, it does not seem to be possible to remove individual entries.

By pressing Ctrl+L, you can copy the entire list to the clipboard, and you can specify which types of codes should be included. Unfortunately, though, the colors are not stored after shutting down the application, so make sure you remember to save the list.

On the whole, Digital Color Meter is a relatively simple utility that makes it easy to extract RGB and HEX color values from your desktop. It is very easy to deploy, as it doesn’t need to be installed before use, and it even allows you to save and copy multiple colors at once.