Hues is a color picker for Mac OS X 10.10 and later, previously released by my now defunct company Giant Comet, now provided as free, open-source app. It is built on top of the OS X color picker, and adds some extra features like automatically copying the color to the clipboard and seeing different color formats.
Hues is a pretty simple app. If you're looking for something more full-featured, check out these great apps:
Hues hasn't been worked on since late 2011. Besides needing some updating and modernization (in progress), there's plenty other improvements to make:
- Rework color formatter and support more formats, including custom formats
- Add a menubar icon
I had started on a Hues 2.0 that didn't rely on the system color picker, and re-implemented most of the features myself, with some improvements. This was in beta when I shut the company down. There was a lot of custom code in there for color picking and conversion, and may be useful to some. That code is in the 2.0 branch wh
- Sign with Developer ID
- Add Sparkle auto-updating
- Update to ARC (yes, it's that old)
Hues is released under the MIT license
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