Easy Color Picker

Easy Color Picker is a lightweight and easy-to-use Unicode color grabber specially made for programmers and web developers who prefer working in Notepad++, thanks to its wide range of options and configuration settings.

It gives you the possibility to choose favorite colors from the palette and insert their codes into your projects. The tool supports several formats, namely HTML, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++ and RGB.

Integrating this plugin into Notepad++ is a simple task that doesn't involve additional software requirements, such as .NET Framework. You just have to unpack the downloaded archive and move the .dll file to the "plugins" folder of the code editor, whether you have the installer or portable version.

If the text editor was already running before moving the .dll, make sure to restart it to apply changes. It's recommended to start Notepad++ with administrative rights, since Easy Color Picker may require permission to write its .ini configuration file to save custom colors.

From this point on, you can access Easy Color Picker from the "Plugins" menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+C. It summons the color dialog built into Windows, where you can quickly select basic, predefined colors from the table as well as create a list of custom colors after exploring the spectrum and adjusting the hue, saturation, luminance, red, green and blue channels.

Once you click "Ok", the tool inserts the code of the selected color at the mouse cursor's current position. From the settings panel, it's possible to pick the color format between HTML (hexadecimal with #RGB), Delphi (integer or hex with $00BGR), Visual Basic (&BGR), C++ (0x00BGR) or RGB (red, green, blue output only).

By default, Easy Color Picker saves the custom colors you specify in the Windows dialog. However, this may require the administrative rights we previously mentioned.

You can also open the .ini configuration file to view, edit and save the custom color codes, current color and format, as well as to prevent the app from saving custom colors (this can also be done from the options panel).

Although Easy Color Picker doesn't have rich features, it provides Notepad++ users with a simple way of inserting color codes into their software projects.