I\'m looking for a way to find the html color code (HEX) for any image or point

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I'm looking for a way to find the html color code (HEX) for any image or point on the pc screen.

For example, while viewing a webpage, I sometimes require to find the html color of a certain point on the webpage. Is it possible to open this utility from the system tray, and then pick the color of any point on the screen?

I know about Google Chrome extensions that would allow me to do this, but I was looking for a way to just pick color of anything visible on the screen! Webpages, photographs, desktop icons, etc etc....

I'm currently using Photoshop for this, and it takes a lot of time to load, due to which I thought I'll ask here instead..

I'm using Win7 64bit Dell XPS Laptop, with Chrome Browser.

Explanation / Answer

Colour Contrast Analyser can do this (and a lot more).

It was specifically designed as a developer's contrast testing tool, allowing you to enter or pick from the screen two different colours and it will tell you the contrast difference between the two.

It is also very lightweight and fast, enough that it can be used as a simple colour picker, and I use it for this very purpose quite often.

It can also show the output in RGB if you need it, and you can set it to grab the colour of a single pixel, or give the calculated average colour of a square up to 8x8 pixels in size.

The only negative I can say for CCA is that if you have more than one monitor it won't work on any but the primary display, as it just keeps showing the last colour seen on the primary monitor whenever you move into the secondary display.

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