Eyedropper
A GNOME app for picking colors from the screen and viewing them in many color formats.
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About Eyedropper
Eyedropper is a small Linux desktop app built for GNOME. It picks a color from anywhere on the screen, or accepts a color typed in as hex, including RGB, RGBA and ARGB hex values.
The picked color is then shown in a list of formats you can copy from, and you can choose which formats appear. The project is written in Rust and has a long commit history on GitHub. It suits designers and developers on a GNOME desktop who need to grab a color and paste it in the right notation.
Strengths
- Picks colors from anywhere on the screen
- Converts between many color formats
- Lets you choose which formats are shown
- Native GNOME design
Limitations
- Linux only
- Best suited to GNOME desktops
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- FineFindus
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- GNOME users who need to pick screen colors and copy them in a specific format
- Categories
- Color tools, System utilities
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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