Colour Picker

Any user who works with colors can benefit from a simple, accessible tool that enables them to pick colors from their desktop. Many applications come equipped with such tools, but a standalone utility can often prove to be superior.

Colour Picker is an unobtrusive tray program that lets you select colors with just a couple of mouse clicks. It generates RBG and Hex color codes, which are all logged and can be copied to the clipboard at any time.

To begin with, it is worth noting that this application does not need to be installed before use, and it consists of a single, small executable file that should be easy to carry around on a portable storage drive.

Of course, the program also does not leave any traces behind after it is shut down, and the fact that it only runs in the system tray makes it very unobtrusive.

Once the program is running, you can enable the color selector by just double-clicking the tray icon. However, no magnifier is available, so it may prove difficult to find the exact pixels you are interested in.

Colour Picker generates both RBG and Hex color codes, and the latter is copied to the clipboard automatically. If you open the History panel, you can view all past selections and copy any values to the clipboard.

Unfortunately, the application lacks some useful features, such as a magnifier, and it offers no configuration options. For instance, you cannot specify which color code should be copied to the clipboard, export multiple values or create a palette.

Overall, Colour Picker can prove to be a useful program, but it does have a fair number of drawbacks. Most importantly, it lacks a few important features that we would like to see added in future releases.