Have you ever wanted to figure out the particular color of a piece of text, or a background, without having to sift through a CSS file, or open Photoshop to use its eye dropper tool?
- Digital Color Meter is a utility for measuring and displaying the color values of pixels displayed on the screen of a Macintosh computer. The utility presents a 'window' onto the screen which includes a cursor which by default is 1 × 1 pixel in size.
- A plus, this meter uses AAA batteries where most others use 9 volts. It also comes with a pair of alligator clips and a stand for easy display viewing. It's a better quality of construction than several other meters I have used. The digital readout is large and clear which is helpful. I would highly recommend it.
One of the secrets of the Mac OS, at least for web designers, is the utility called Digital Color Meter. I’m surprised more designers and developers don’t know about it, so I thought I’d try to rectify that situation.
Launch Digital Color Meter On Mac. You can find the app under the Utilities. First, open the Finder and click Applications from the sidebar list. Here, you will see all the apps of your Mac. Find Digital Color Meter and click on it to open. Another option is to launch Spotlight, type Digital Color Meter, then click on it. Software Compatibility Guide for the 333D01 With our goal to make your vibration measurement experience as simple as possible, we’ve compiled a list of software to streamline taking data. Below is a list of software options offering features suited to different types of use. Not sure that your sensor is connected? Capacitance Meter,KKmoon M6013 LCD Resistance Capacitor Tester Digital High Precision Circuit Tester Measuring Capacitance Resistance Capacitor Circuit Tester Digital Auto Ranging 0.01pF to 470000uF 4.5 out of 5 stars 49.
What does it do?
Simply put, it measures the color of a particular pixel on your screen. It will change its reading as you move your cursor over the screen - it measures the pixel at the tip of your cursor.To use Digital Color Meter, go to Applications/Utilities, and you’ll find it there (along with other goodies like Network Utility). When open, it will present a floating window with a magnified representation of where your cursor point is.
You will also see a set of RGB values of the color of that pixel. But what if you don’t want RGB values?
How to set it up for a web design workflow
For a lot of web design, you're going to want to have hex values of colors. The way digital color meter used to work, you could select 'hex' from the drop down in the floating window, and get just that.In Lion, though, Apple changed where this toggle is. Go to the View menu, Display Values > as Hexadecimal. Voila - now you’re getting hex values!
The way I used to work was to look at those values, and write them down on a scrap of paper. But I just needed to poke around the menu a bit and I’d have found a much easier way!
You need to know two key commands (Digital Color Meter has to the front most app for these to work):
Command-L - this locks the pixel that digital color meter is looking at. You can now freely move your cursor and you won’t loose the pixel you were measuring.
Shift-Command-C - this will copy the measured value onto your clipboard
Digital Color Meter Mac
Now you can paste your desired hex value, even with the octothorp - er, ‘#’ included!
| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.13 / August 18, 2018; 2 years ago[1] |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | Utility |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.apple.com/osx/apps/ |
Digital Color Meter is a utility for measuring and displaying the color values of pixels displayed on the screen of a Macintosh computer.
The utility presents a 'window' onto the screen which includes a cursor which by default is 1 × 1 pixel in size. The color displayed in that pixel is shown as a color value which may be represented as decimal or hexadecimal RGB triplets, CIE 1931, CIE 1976 or CIELAB triplets or a Tristimulus triplet.
The displayed color could be copied either as a solid color or as the color value which represents it, to be used in other applications (for instance an RGB triplet may be used in a color specification to be used on a World Wide Web page).
References[edit]
- ^'OS X 10.10 Yosemite release date'. Retrieved November 16, 2014.