Instead of having the app dependent of the Mac App Store, also have it available as a cask from Homebrew.

Also having the compiled .dmg-file for the Releases-section right here on GitHub! 😄

• macOS 12.1
• SCP v1.9.0 (MAS)

Repro

• If you put ff4915 in your pasteboard, and enter the hex field and press ⌘cmd+V the color wheel & swatch will update but the field (usually) remains at its previous value
• bonus: sometimes the field does update after pasting. This usually happens after fiddling with the controls a bit.

here's a screen recording:

I'd like to build a Raycast shortcut to open the color picker, do you plan to add Apple Script support or maybe just a URL scheme that once called opens the picker?

Thanks!

If there is a way to download it, please advise. Thank you.

The app does not show up in the menu bar
macOS hides menu bar apps when there is no space left in the menu bar. This is a common problem on MacBooks with a notch. Try quitting some menu bar apps to free up space. If this does not solve it, try quitting Bartender if you have it installed.

You can sort icons in MenuBar using Cmd button + mouse.

No need to use any extra soft like Bartender. Just move app to the right corner of Menubar :)

I love this app, thank you! But in Preview, if I choose the color picker, it opens up the macOS system color picker, not this one. Is there any way to accomplish that?

I plan to add support for LCH color (not Lab since it's almost the same, just not as human-friendly). It's superior to HSL and RGB.

There's no rush though. Doesn't seem like all browsers support it yet: https://chromestatus.com/feature/4592567062626304

When I look at the dock, it is not clear whether the application is open or not on Dock icon. The white dot disappears.

Also application does not appear in the quick switch interface. Command+Tab | Comman+Q.

There is no Quit option when right clicked on the Dock icon.

I switched from Sip to System Color Picker a few months ago, and I'm very thankful for the great app you built – Thanks!

One thing I'm always missing from Sip, though, is the possibility to see the current color inside the color sampler. It looks like this:

I find this very helpful when I have to pick the color of text, where I'm searching for the darkest color with the color picker, so I don't accidentally select a weaker color of font smoothing. Is there any chance System Color Picker may support this too? Thanks for your consideration.

I'll mainly use the app's color picker via the global shortcut, so I'd prefer to be able to hide the app's icon from the menubar to have a less cluttered menubar.

Can you add the option to use CMYK color format? Great app!

I know the tech world goes forward, but would you consider supporting the new version of the app also unter macOS 13? Thanks to Apple's limitations my iMac 5K stays at Ventura, as many other models. Having an OKLCH picker would be lovely.

Anyway, thanks for the app, it looks splendid.

Opening the picker via a launcher shortcut (Raycast/Spotlight) fails when in menu bar mode

Currently, the LCH color is clamped to sRGB as the browser support for high gamut is limited. I think we could add a preference later on to enable high gamut LCH. Is a preference even needed? Could we make high gamut the default at some point?

How will browsers handle this?

Hi, such a good tool, and I really love this app and all of your other apps!
I want to add a feature to show and copy localized description of the color, using AXNameFromColor(_:), don't know if the PR is welcome.

Something like this:

I think we should validate the text fields and indicate invalid/unsupported input somehow. Maybe making the text field have a red border.

As an iOS developer, I often need colors formatted according to the UIColor / SwiftUI.Color initializer. Support for that would be great! 😊

Your docs refer to the Skala Color plugin as "Scala".

Also, checking their site https://bjango.com/mac/skalacolor/ it says

Skala Color is on hold for now
There are some bugs in Skala Color that we don’t think we can fix while keeping it a macOS color picker.

I love that your app treats LCH as a first-class citizen! I’ve been using LCH colours for different UI elements ever since I stumbled upon Lea Verou’s article, and I end up using her LCH colour picker https://css.land/lch/ a lot. It would be great to have this functionality in the sliders tab as well.

Getting Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code when trying to build. What's wrong?

There doesn't seem to be any Mac color pickers that support P3 colors. if I pick a P3 color in Safari (which supports P3 colors out of the box) it will just output the color in SRGB color formats. Safari has its own built-in P3 color picker:

Although the app obviously isn't very text-heavy, I think it would be neat to allow contributors to translate Color Picker into other languages.

The app already feels 95% like a native Mac app, and having the app name and menu options in my own language (not English) would make that 100%.

Apple's instructions for app localization can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/localization

Great app and work man!

I just noticed that there is this bug, where the text fields are not responsive. I can change the colours using the palette and the picker, but unable to change the exact values in the text fields, unless i have the color picker settings open. Only then the field becomes available to edit. Using Sonoma currently, on

I was wondering if this could be fixed somehow. Unfortunately I am not experienced with Swift and X Code and I cannot find the issue by myself.

I love the ability to select colors and add them directly to the macOS 'other colors' picker used by other products. That said, I work with multiple clients, and it would be really helpful to have the option to create individual palettes for each brand so I can keep the blue from Client 1 separate from the blue from Client 2.

Would you be willing to add an option to save and access custom palettes within the app? Ideally, there would be a 6th icon across the top row that changes the color wheel/crayons/etc. to a series of rows with up to 4 most recent custom palettes that include color blocks that can be dragged to the system set on the bottom. A context-specific menu row that includes [+], [-] and [trash] icons would allow users to create/delete palettes and trash individual colors from a given palette without cluttering the screen.

If this isn't an option, an option with more clicks would leverage your existing Palettes icon to the left of the [...] button on your menu bar in the middle of the panel. An option to add new palettes here would be useful, though selecting the palette to save a given color to, and remove from, will require more effort.

This could also be a one time purchase option to compensate for the extra functionality.

Recognize the current language environment and change the software language.

It could be useful to automatically copy the picked value to the clipboard based on a pre-defined preference rather than have to copy using the keyboard shortcut. I can imagine this will differ depending on whether the user needs HEX, RGB, etc. but it would lead to a smoother workflow, especially when integrating with launchers like Raycast (example attached)

I've just moved away from using ColorSnapper2, and I think this app should implement some of the extra features that ColorSnapper2 provides for its color picker, as they improve the user experience significantly.

Features

1. Being able to resize the loupe with the scroll wheel. This is pretty useful as the current size of the loupe feels very small to me, it feels a bit disorienting, as if I can't see enough of the surrounding to orientate myself easily, I'd like to make it bigger.
2. Current color tooltip. I like this a lot because it allows the color picker to be used for more things, for example I can check if something is pure black or if two things are of the same color super quickly, currently doing the same with this app involves opening the window, which just breaks the workflow for me.
3. Close-up mode. When pressing ctrl on ColorSnapper2 the loupe sort of zooms in into the screen, showing a bigger loupe, much bigger pixels, a pixels grid and importantly also the loupe moves more slowly. Those are pretty useful features IMO as picking a precise pixel currently with the app is not a smooth as it should be, it's just too easy to move the cursor accidentally to a neighbor pixel and I find that I physically get closer to the screen just to have a better view of the pixels.

Demo

I want to copy the color as HSB but it is only available as HSL.

Would love to get a color name for each picked color,
I happen to maintain this list: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
But there are plenty of others around: https://github.com/meodai/color-name-lists

I think it would be useful to be able to quickly paste a color in either Hex, HSL, or RGB. You can already do this by selecting the correct text field first, but I think it would be nice if we could support this as long as the app is active.

Open questions:

• What should the keyboard shortcut be? Should we use Command+V for this? Or should it be Shift+Command+V?
• Where and how should it be presented in the UI? (Button to paste)

The implementation should be simple as we already have the initializers. We just try initializing the colors on after another.

Feedback wanted

MacOs Version: Big Sur 11.3.1

As the title states I can't drag and drop any items when "show Desktop" is activated via hot corner.

Hey, can you please publish a Homebrew Cask for this (and possibly all your other products as well)? You have a lot of amazing apps but none of them are available on brew which is a requirement for headless installs. I'm trying to include this app in https://install.doctor.

Alternatively, maybe you can add a one-line bash command that installs the app in the README.md?

Can you add support for OKLCH colors? OKLCH has been added to CSS color 4 and is superior to LCH, particularly at perceptually uniform blending of colors without hue shifts.

Browser support isn't here yet, so no rush, but I think OKLCH will be better than LCH when you get to implementing color sliders #20.