Another amazing find from Baas. This is not just a program I'll use once in a blue moon when I'm doing graphics work, it's something I may start using on a daily basis for the site.
What's missing from so many color tools is an easy way to grab and paste specific colors, but that's what the main window is designed for: to be a reference box that you can pull effective colors from. Left-clicking gives you the code (e.g. #EFDECD) while right clicking copies the name (e.g. Almond).
If you need to show a lot of colors or don't like the vertical view, you can set it up to work in columns:
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... and sort them by a variety of methods (hue, saturation, brightness, name, etc.)
Still, you don't really see the program until you open the "chart builder" from the File menu. That has some really effective tricks for getting and naming a good set.
Although the main window only works with HTML color sets, this is what our site (and many others) use. I just generated a few colors that I think might look good on the gray format and listed their names:
I'll do a bit of testing to get the colors right and then post the color palate XML file.
I have some web developer friends that need to see this.
License: Freeware, developer Carroll Dearstone asks that it's not redistributed.
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