While I was on Reddit (using the excellent Apollo for iOS) this weekend, I came across a fun new application that I am glad I now have. It’s called Aurora. Aurora is a simple color picker for macOS ...

If you work with color on the Mac, you’re probably painfully aware that the macOS Colors palette hasn’t changed in years. It offers several different types of color pickers, an eyedropper tool for ...

Back in September, I wrote about the secrets of the Color Picker, that small dialog box through which you set colors in many OS X applications. In that article, I discussed the various ways of getting ...

Developer John Calhoun tells the story of working on the Mac color picker in the mid-1990s, including how he independently added the crayon color picker without any oversight from design or marketing.

Pixelmator Pro 1.6 has been released with an all-new color picker that streamlines color management in the app, plus an improved way to select multiple objects in an image. The lion’s share of ...

I’ve been using a Mac for several years now, and I had no idea that the Color Picker built into OS X could accept image files. A recent Bjango blog post covers some clever uses for sampling images and ...