Dec 11, 2014
Ever wanted to know the exact details of a colour on your desktop? The colour pickers reviewed here will do just that for anything appearing on your screen, including the codes necessary should you wish to replicate a colour somewhere else.
The best free color picker for me is not even a color picker program (at least that's not its primary function) -- it's a screen loupe utility called Zzoom (http://www.omiod.com/product-zzoom.asp). It's portable (just one 30KB exe), has a tiny memory footprint (consumes about 1.2MB of RAM), you can use it as a color picker (press 'C'), plus you can use it as a resizable, grid-toggable screen loupe for aligning elements with pixel precision. This program belongs in every web developer's toolbox.
