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Color Picker

Pick colors and copy HEX, RGB, and HSL values for design systems and CSS.

ColorDesignCSS
HEX: #0f766e
RGB: rgb(15, 118, 110)
HSL: hsl(175, 77%, 26%)

About this Color Picker

Color Picker lets designers and developers pick colors and copy values in HEX, RGB, HSL, and modern CSS color formats. It runs entirely in the browser, supports keyboard input, and produces values that paste cleanly into design tokens, Tailwind config, CSS variables, and product specs. The picker is built for repeat work: brand color systems, marketing landing pages, accessible UI states, and quick palette exploration.

This page is statically generated for organic search and enhanced with client-side interactivity for privacy. The tool is useful for quick checks, documentation, QA workflows, and repeat production tasks where copying reliable output matters.

How to use Color Picker

  1. Paste or enter the source value.
  2. Adjust the available options for your workflow.
  3. Review the output and copy it when it is ready.

Key features

  • Pick from a visual area or enter HEX, RGB, HSL directly
  • Copy to HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA, and OKLCH
  • Live preview against light and dark backgrounds
  • Adjust saturation and lightness with keyboard arrows
  • Generate complementary, analogous, and triadic palettes
  • Runs in the browser - selections stay local

Use cases

Define brand color tokens

Pick brand primary, secondary, and accent colors and copy values into design tokens or a Tailwind config.

Adjust UI state colors

Build hover, active, and disabled variants by adjusting lightness from a base color.

Match a screenshot

Sample a color from a screenshot or eyedropper, then convert to your preferred format.

Generate palettes

Explore harmonies (complementary, analogous, triadic) when starting a new design system.

Convert between formats

Round-trip HEX into HSL to reason about lightness, or into OKLCH for perceptually uniform palettes.

Usage examples

Color Picker example

Paste or enter your content in the tool workspace.
The generated output is ready to copy, compare, or reuse.

In-depth guide

HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH

HEX is compact and ubiquitous. RGB is the underlying display format but is hard to reason about. HSL adds hue, saturation, and lightness - useful for generating UI variants. OKLCH is a modern, perceptually uniform color space that makes 'two colors equally light' actually look equally light. Modern CSS supports all of them; pick the format that best matches the way your team thinks about color.

Accessibility and contrast

Pretty colors are not enough; readable colors are required. WCAG sets a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text. Use a contrast checker when finalizing combinations - especially for muted, on-brand color palettes that designers love but auditors flag.

Design tokens as a single source of truth

Store colors as named tokens (color.brand.primary, color.surface.subtle) rather than raw HEX values. Tokens decouple intent from value, so a brand refresh can update one token and propagate everywhere. Tools like Tokens Studio, Style Dictionary, and Tailwind config files all support this pattern.

Dark mode

A dark mode palette is not the inverse of light mode. Backgrounds shift to dark grey (not pure black to reduce eye strain), accents soften, and shadows often become light glows. Pick dark mode colors with the same rigor as light mode - especially contrast for text and interactive elements.

Working with designers

Designers think in HSL or OKLCH because those formats map to how humans perceive color. Developers think in HEX because that is what ships in CSS. The picker is the translation layer - pick in the designer's preferred space, copy in the developer's preferred format, store as named tokens.

Color as a brand contract

Once your brand colors are public, changes are expensive. Marketing material, packaging, partner integrations, and ad creative all encode them. Before a brand refresh, audit every surface where the color appears, plan a transition window, and update assets in waves. Use design tokens internally so the new value propagates without manual hunting. Make the change visible to customers (a brief launch post helps) so they reassociate the new palette with the brand. Treat color decisions as long-term commitments - and use the picker freely during exploration, but cautiously when finalizing.

Building a color system, not a palette

A palette is a list of colors. A color system is a list of decisions: which color means primary action, which means destructive action, which background sits behind which surface. Systems include semantic tokens (color.action.primary), each mapped to a literal value (color.indigo.600). When the brand changes, you update the literal layer; semantics stay stable. When accessibility audits flag a contrast issue, you adjust one semantic mapping. The color picker helps you explore literal values during the design phase. The system is what keeps the choices coherent over time.

Pro tips

Pick base colors in HSL/OKLCH, then convert to HEX for CSS
Always check contrast - especially for muted brand palettes
Store colors as tokens, not raw HEX, in any system over 20 colors
For accessible focus rings, pick a hue that contrasts against every background you use

Best practices

Use design tokens so brand changes propagate
Audit color choices against WCAG contrast
Treat dark mode as a separate palette, not an inversion

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Frequently asked questions

Is the Color Picker free to use?

Yes. The Color Picker runs in your browser and is designed for quick everyday work without an account.

Does the Color Picker upload my data?

No. Interactive processing happens client-side unless you later connect your own backend or analytics services.

When should I use this tool?

Pick colors and copy HEX, RGB, and HSL values for design systems and CSS.

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