About Color Picker
Color Picker presents a native color control and instantly reports the chosen swatch in five notations: uppercase HEX, rgb(), hsl(), hsv() and cmyk(). It is the quickest way to grab a color visually and come away with every string you might need for a stylesheet, a design document or a print specification.
The control is the operating system's own color chooser, so on a desktop you can type a hex value, drag along the hue strip, or sample with an eyedropper where the browser provides one; on mobile it opens the familiar touch picker. Whichever way you settle on a color, the five representations update without any further clicks.
The same output caveats apply as elsewhere on the site: hsv() and cmyk() are descriptive labels rather than CSS functions, and the hsl() and hsv() figures are rounded to whole numbers. The HEX and rgb() lines are the ones to paste into code.
How to use Color Picker
- 1 Click the color swatch to open your system's color chooser.
- 2 Choose a color by dragging, typing a hex value or sampling, depending on your browser.
- 3 Read the five output lines and copy whichever notation your project needs.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sample a color from anywhere on my screen?
Only if your browser exposes an eyedropper inside its native color chooser. The tool does not add a screen-sampling feature of its own; it uses whatever the operating system and browser already provide.
Why is the primary value shown as a hex string?
The native color input stores its value internally as #RRGGBB, so that is the canonical form. The tool reads those channels and derives the other four notations from them.
Does picking a color upload anything?
No. The color control and every conversion run locally in the browser, so nothing about your choice is sent to a server.
Which output should I copy for a webpage?
The HEX line or the rgb() line — both are valid CSS. The hsl() line also works in CSS, while hsv() and cmyk() are provided for reference only.
Free, online, and private
Free to use
Color Picker is completely free. There is no account to create, no login, and no hidden charge or usage limit.
Runs online in your browser
It is a free online tool that runs entirely in your browser. Nothing to download or install — open the page and start using it right away.
Your data stays private
All processing happens locally on your device. Your input is never uploaded, stored, or tracked, so it never leaves your browser.
How Color Picker behaves in detail
These are the specifics of this implementation — the exact ranges, defaults and fixed settings you are working with.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Output rows | 5 labelled lines — HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV and CMYK, all derived from one swatch |
| HEX row | uppercase 6-digit #RRGGBB |
| Precision | HSL and HSV are whole numbers, CMYK is given to one decimal place, and the RGB row prints plain integers |
| Field | one colour input, default #4F46E5 |
| Trigger | the run button — the rows are not recomputed while you drag the colour picker |
Compiled from the implementation of this tool and checked against it by itoolnet.
What Color Picker does not do
Knowing the edges of a tool saves more time than another list of its features. These are the cases where it will not do what you might expect.
- The result is text for copying, not a stylesheet file or a token export: there is no alpha row, no name lookup, no design-token output, and nothing is placed on the clipboard automatically.
- The swatch only ever produces an opaque 6-digit hex, so the transparency branch of the shared parser is unreachable from this page and an 8-digit value cannot be entered at all.
- HSL, HSV and CMYK are rounded for display, so those rows are not always enough to reconstruct the original colour; the HEX row is the only exact one in the set.
Tested and documented by itoolnet, the team that builds and maintains this site.