Spot Color

Spot Color is a simple application that allows you to use the standard Mac OS X color picker as a stand-alone app. This allows you to quickly grab colors without having to be in an image editing app like Photoshop. Since it uses the built-in color picker, you can utilize the system wide color picker plugins and swatches.

This is most useful when combined with custom color picker plugins like the recently released Developer Color Picker by Wade Cosgrove at Panic or Hex Color Picker by Waffle Software. Both of these extend the built-in color picker and allow you to get the color in hexadecimal and other formats.

Thanks to Curt Kotula for designing the icon and coming up with the name. Code is on Github

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