ColorSlurp 4+

Best colour picker I've tried

I need to sample colours from photos or websites as they appear on my mac screen so that I can set the correct hex values in css to match those colours. Because of apple color management, many colour pickers return the wrong value, which is immediately obvious when using the hex value on a website. ColorSlurp gets it right every time, and its ability to give the colour in css values other than hex (e.g. HSL) is really useful too.

The ability to create named swatches of sampled colours is really useful when I'm collecting colours for a website. It saves writing them down somethere. The built in RGB or HSL sliders make it quick to try out variations of a sampled colour. All this in the free tool!

In the Pro version, there is a palette generator which could save me time in some situations. It produces shades, tints, analogues, complements etc of the sampled colour for you (I often resort to online tools to do this). I am very tempted to upgrade to the Pro version.

Best I've ever used

I have 30 years' experience in colour design and have several books out. This is the best tool I have used by far. I have purchase macOS and iOS versions. Syncs palettes beautifully. A couple of improvements would give 5 stars: First, the macOS version would be better if it supported schemes and scales (tints, tones, shades) like Paletter does. Secondly, please bring contrast checking to the iOS app. Brilliant app.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thanks for the awesome review! You can view color shades and tints in the Mac app, just click on the palette icon in the right hand side of the hex code. Contact checking is on our roadmap for the iOS app!

Almost perfect

I'd been using this app for a couple of years and got others onto it as well. It's unobtrusive, quick and very comprehensive. With a lot of utilities, there's always a trade-off and you often need several for all the use cases you might have, but with ColorSlurp you're covered.

Being able to pick multiple colors from a page at once and drop the whole collection into a palette is especially great.

However, I have one caveat: as a professional designer, I rely on this tool quite a lot, especially as Adobe's color workflows can be a bit clunky and limiting. I have a LOT of palettes saved. As there are no folders, and reordering the palettes can be a bit glitchy/temperamental, I started exporting those I use less and storing them on my disk. Two things that would vastly improve the experience for me would be: 1) the ability to select export multiple formats at once (having a PNG preview alongside a collection is a must for me, and being able to export palettes for different systems at once would be so helpful) and 2) the ability to export multiple palettes at once.

Other than that, folders would be incredible. Is this possible, wonderful Devs? Thanks!