PlainColor

Lightweight, versatile, cross-platform color picker app written in Rust / Tauri

⬇️ Download

• macOS: dmg
• Windows: exe | microsoft store - Coming soon...
• Linux: deb | flathub - Coming soon...

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Picker - Pick a color from your screen with advanced magnifying glass
• 🎨 Custom palettes - Organize your colors with palettes. Name colors and add them to palettes to use in your projects
  • Export palette to JSON Apple Color List (.clr) CSS or SASS variables JavaScript object
  • Import from file JSON Apple Color List (.clr)
  • Import from library Tailwind CSS Material UI Apple Developer
• 📋 A lot of color formats - Copy your colors as:
  • #HEX HEX #hex hex
  • rgb() R,G,B color(display-p3)
  • hsl() H,S,L
  • cmyk() C,M,Y,K
  • oklch()
• 🍎 Great macOS support
  • Works on top of menu bar and fullscreen windows

Coming soon

• ⬛ Shades
• ⬜ Tints
• 🔲 Contrast checker
• 🖼️ Extract palette from image
  • K-Mean Algorithm
  • Dominant Colors

Want more? Open a new issue or 👍 an existing one so we can talk about it.

🐞 Bug report

If you want to report a bug, first, thank you, that helps us a lot. Please open an issue and mention your OS, your PlainColor version, and how to reproduce it. Adding a screenshot of the issue or screen recording is a big help too.

🔮 Roadmap

• Add ability to reorder colors
• Add ability to reorder palettes
• More color formats:
  • Common:
    • HSB/HSV 268, 69, 57
    • RGB/RGBA from 0 to 1 0,36; 0,18; 0,57
    • LAB
    • RAL
    • HKS
    • COPIC
    • Prismacolor
  • Native:
    • 🖥️ NSColor RGB
    • 🖥️ NSColor HSB
    • 📱 UIColor RGB
    • 📱 UIColor HSB
    • 🐦‍⬛ SwiftUI Color HSB
    • 🐦‍⬛ Swift Color Literal
    • 🖥️ Obj-C NSColor Calibrated RGB
    • 📱 Obj-C UIColor RGB
    • 🌊 .NET RGB/ARGB
    • ☕ Java HEX
    • ☕ Java RGB
    • 📱 Android RGB/ARGB
  • Custom color formatter
• Add ability to change global shortcuts
• Export to image (with preview, mb use canvas)
• Add picker sound (Funny mouth sound, with ability to turn off)
• New button pressed animation: scale down
• Search for colors in palette
• Fix: Sometimes the cursor is not visible - Hide cursor with set_cursor_visible (issue)
• Aperture size
• Move picker with arrows (step = 1px), make sure it cannot be out of screen bounds
• Settings: Add "Reset to defaults" button
• Instant copy shortcut CommandOrControl+Alt+C
• Instant pick shortcut CommandOrControl+Shift+C
• Build app releases with GitHub action
• Better export preview (see ColorSlurp export)
• Fix: macOS permission resets on every update, and the old version is still listed on the Settings permissions screen
• Add Check for Updates button:
  • macOS menu bar
  • Settings page