Best Color Picker

Professional color picker: pick from screen, convert formats, generate palettes, check contrast, and export as CSS, SCSS or JSON.

🎨 BEST COLOR PICKER — The Professional Color Tool for Chrome The most complete, beautiful, and feature-rich color picker extension ever built for Chrome. Whether you are a UI/UX designer, front-end developer, brand strategist, digital artist, or just someone who needs to grab a color from a webpage — Best Color Picker gives you tools that no other extension in the store can match. Built with a luxury dark interface, silky-smooth interactions, and zero learning curve. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ WHY CHOOSE BEST COLOR PICKER? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most color pickers do one thing: let you pick a color and copy the HEX code. That is where they stop. Best Color Picker starts there and goes ten steps further. We built this extension because designers and developers deserve tools that match the quality of their work. Every pixel of the UI is crafted with care. Every feature solves a real problem. No bloat, no upsells, no accounts required — just a beautiful, powerful tool that opens instantly from your browser toolbar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖱️ FEATURE 1 — NATIVE SCREEN COLOR PICKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Click the "Pick" button and your cursor becomes a precision color sampler. Hover over any pixel on your screen — any webpage, any image, any UI element — and click to capture its exact color. No screenshots, no guessing, no browser zoom tricks. Uses Chrome's native EyeDropper API for pixel-perfect accuracy across all display resolutions, including high-DPI and Retina screens. Works on every website, web app, and browser UI you can see. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 FEATURE 2 — FIVE COLOR FORMATS, ALL AT ONCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When you pick or enter a color, Best Color Picker instantly converts it into every professional format simultaneously: • HEX — #D4A853 (with optional 8-digit alpha support, e.g. #D4A853BF) • RGB — rgb(212, 168, 83) or rgba(212, 168, 83, 0.75) • HSL — hsl(38, 60%, 58%) or hsla(38, 60%, 58%, 0.75) • HSV — hsv(38, 61%, 83%) — the format used by Photoshop and Figma • CMYK — cmyk(0%, 21%, 61%, 17%) — the format used in print design Copy any format to your clipboard with a single click. Every value field is also directly editable — type a HEX code, paste an RGB value, or manually adjust any component and the entire picker updates instantly. Most Chrome color pickers support only HEX and RGB. CMYK support alone makes this extension essential for anyone working across digital and print. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔬 FEATURE 3 — PROFESSIONAL HSV COLOR PICKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The main color picker uses the same HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) model used by Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma — not the limited wheel-only controls found in most browser extensions. • Large saturation/brightness field — drag to select any shade with precision • Full-spectrum hue slider — sweep through all 360 degrees of the color spectrum • Opacity/alpha slider — set transparency from 0% to 100% • Real-time canvas rendering — every movement updates all values instantly This is the same color model professional designers use every day. If you know how to use Photoshop's color picker, you already know how to use this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 FEATURE 4 — COLOR HARMONY PALETTE GENERATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start from any color and automatically generate professionally harmonious color palettes using classical color theory: • Complementary — 2 colors directly opposite on the color wheel. Maximum contrast, bold impact. • Analogous — 3 colors adjacent on the wheel. Natural, cohesive, easy on the eye. • Triadic — 3 colors evenly spaced 120° apart. Vibrant, balanced, versatile. • Split-Complementary — A base color plus two colors adjacent to its complement. High contrast with less tension. • Square — 4 colors evenly spaced 90° apart. Rich variety with balanced harmony. • Tetradic — 4 colors in two complementary pairs. Full, complex palettes for rich designs. Click any color in the generated palette to copy its HEX code or load it into the picker. Every palette updates live as you adjust your source color. Also included: a full 12-step Tints & Shades strip that generates every light and dark variation of your color — from near-white to near-black — perfect for building design system color scales. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 FEATURE 5 — PAGE COLOR EXTRACTOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ See a website with a color palette you love? Click "Page" and Best Color Picker scans the active tab and extracts every color used in the page's CSS — backgrounds, text, borders, shadows, SVG fills, and more. All extracted colors appear as a visual swatch grid you can browse instantly. Click any swatch to load that color into the picker. Great for: • Reverse-engineering a brand's color palette • Matching colors when recreating a design • Finding accessibility issues in an existing site • Building a reference library of color combinations you discover while browsing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FEATURE 6 — CSS GRADIENT BUILDER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Build beautiful CSS gradients visually — no more hand-coding gradient syntax. • Three gradient types: Linear, Radial, and Conic • Add unlimited color stops — drag them along the gradient bar to position them • Adjust the angle of linear and conic gradients with a numeric input (0°–360°) • Edit each stop's HEX color or position percentage directly • Use the EyeDropper to pick a stop color directly from your screen • The complete, ready-to-paste CSS is generated live: background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D4A853 0%, #6B3FA0 50%, #1A3C6E 100%); Copy the CSS with one click. No other free Chrome color picker extension includes a gradient builder like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♿ FEATURE 7 — WCAG CONTRAST CHECKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accessibility is not optional. Best Color Picker includes a built-in WCAG 2.1 contrast checker so you can verify your color combinations before shipping them. Enter any foreground and background color pair. The tool instantly calculates: • The precise contrast ratio (e.g. 4.73:1) • WCAG AA compliance for normal text (requires 4.5:1) • WCAG AA compliance for large text (requires 3:1) • WCAG AAA compliance for normal text (requires 7:1) • WCAG AAA compliance for large text (requires 4.5:1) A live text preview shows exactly what your text will look like against the background — in both normal and large sizes — so you are not just looking at numbers, you are seeing the real visual result. The current picker color automatically pre-fills as the background, so checking any color you pick takes just a few seconds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁️ FEATURE 8 — COLOR BLINDNESS SIMULATOR (UNIQUE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is one of the most unique features available in any Chrome color picker extension. Approximately 8% of men and 0.5% of women have some form of color vision deficiency. Best Color Picker simulates how your selected color appears to people with four different types of color blindness: • Protanopia — Reduced sensitivity to red light. Reds appear darker or brown. • Deuteranopia — Reduced sensitivity to green light. The most common form of color blindness. • Tritanopia — Reduced sensitivity to blue light. Blues appear green; yellows appear violet. • Achromatopsia — Complete color blindness. The world is seen in shades of gray. For each type, the extension shows you the simulated color swatch and its HEX value, calculated using scientifically accurate LMS color space transformation matrices. Click any simulated swatch to copy its value. Use this when designing for accessibility, when choosing colors that must communicate meaning without relying on hue alone, or when building products used by diverse audiences. No other free color picker extension in the Chrome Web Store includes this level of accessibility tooling. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌡️ FEATURE 9 — COLOR TEMPERATURE INDICATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Understanding the emotional temperature of a color is part of professional color work. Best Color Picker includes a real-time color temperature indicator that shows where your color sits on the warm-to-cool spectrum: • Deep Cool Blue → Cool → Neutral → Warm → Warm Golden The indicator moves live as you adjust your color, giving you an instant read on whether a color feels energetic and warm or calm and cool — information that matters when building brand palettes, illustration, or UI themes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 FEATURE 10 — MULTI-FORMAT CODE EXPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop manually writing variable declarations. Best Color Picker can export your colors — the current color, your recent history, or a full harmony palette — directly as production-ready code in five formats: CSS Custom Properties (Variables): :root { --brand-gold: #D4A853; --brand-purple: #6B3FA0; } Tailwind CSS Config: module.exports = { theme: { extend: { colors: { 'brand-gold': '#D4A853', } } } } SCSS Variables: $brand-gold: #D4A853; $brand-purple: #6B3FA0; JSON (with HEX, RGB, and HSL fields for each color): { "brand-gold": { "hex": "#D4A853", "rgb": "rgb(212, 168, 83)", "hsl": "hsl(38, 60%, 58%)" } } Sketch / Figma Reference (name, HEX, RGB, alpha): Ideal for pasting into design handoff documents. Set a custom variable name, choose your export source (current color / recent history / current palette), copy to clipboard, or download as a file — all in one click. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕓 FEATURE 11 — 24-COLOR HISTORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Every color you pick or create is automatically saved to a 24-slot visual history, persisted in Chrome storage so it survives browser restarts. Browse your recent colors as a swatch grid, click any to reload it, or clear the history when starting a new project. Your color history also feeds into the Export engine — export all your recent colors as CSS variables, a Tailwind config, or JSON in seconds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 DESIGN & EXPERIENCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Best Color Picker is built to look and feel like a professional desktop application — not a browser popup as an afterthought. • Luxury dark theme with warm gold accents — easy on the eyes during long design sessions • Glassmorphism surface effects with subtle depth • Smooth 60fps canvas rendering for the color picker • Monospace font for all color values — easier to read and compare • Animated tab transitions • Compact popup that fits all tools in a clean, organized layout • Toast notifications for every copy action — you always know when the clipboard was updated • No signup, no account, no subscription, no ads, no tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 WHO IS THIS FOR? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UI & UX Designers Pick colors directly from design references, check contrast ratios for accessibility compliance, generate harmony palettes for design systems, and export to CSS or Figma-ready formats. Front-End Developers Convert between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK instantly. Build and copy CSS gradients. Export color variables as CSS custom properties, SCSS variables, or Tailwind config — ready to paste into your codebase. Brand & Graphic Designers Work in CMYK for print-accurate colors. Generate harmonious palettes grounded in color theory. Use the color blindness simulator to ensure your brand colors work for all audiences. Web Accessibility Specialists Check WCAG AA and AAA compliance in seconds. Simulate all four types of color vision deficiency. Identify and fix low-contrast color combinations before they reach users. Digital Artists & Illustrators Sample colors from reference images on any webpage. Explore color harmonies. Build and visualize gradients. Keep a history of your working palette. Students & Learners See all color formats simultaneously and learn how HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK relate to each other. Explore color theory through the harmony generators. Understand accessibility through the contrast checker. Anyone who works with color on the web. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Best Color Picker collects zero personal data. Nothing is sent to any server. All processing happens entirely on your device. Permissions used: • activeTab — Required to scan the current page for colors when you use the Page Color Extractor feature • scripting — Required to run the page color scanner on the active tab • storage — Used to save your color history and settings locally on your device • clipboardWrite — Required to copy color values to your clipboard when you click a Copy button No browsing history is read. No page content is sent anywhere. Your colors stay on your computer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 COMPLETE FEATURE LIST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PICKER TAB ✓ Full HSV color field (saturation × brightness canvas) ✓ 360° hue slider ✓ 0–100% opacity/alpha slider ✓ Live color swatch with transparency checkerboard ✓ Automatic color name detection (200+ named colors) ✓ Native EyeDropper — pick any pixel from the screen ✓ Page Color Extractor — scan active tab for all CSS colors ✓ HEX input (6-digit and 8-digit with alpha) ✓ RGB / RGBA inputs ✓ HSL / HSLA inputs ✓ HSV inputs ✓ CMYK inputs ✓ One-click copy for every format ✓ 24-color persistent history grid ✓ Clear history PALETTE TAB ✓ Source color preview ✓ Complementary harmony ✓ Analogous harmony ✓ Triadic harmony ✓ Split-Complementary harmony ✓ Square harmony ✓ Tetradic harmony ✓ 12-step tints & shades strip ✓ Page color extractor grid GRADIENT TAB ✓ Linear gradient ✓ Radial gradient ✓ Conic gradient ✓ Angle control (0–360°) ✓ Unlimited color stops ✓ Drag-to-reposition stops ✓ EyeDropper per stop ✓ Per-stop HEX & position editing ✓ Live CSS output ✓ One-click CSS copy ANALYZE TAB ✓ WCAG contrast ratio calculator ✓ Custom foreground and background color inputs ✓ AA Normal, AA Large, AAA Normal, AAA Large badges ✓ Live text preview (normal and large sizes) ✓ Protanopia simulator ✓ Deuteranopia simulator ✓ Tritanopia simulator ✓ Achromatopsia simulator ✓ Color temperature indicator (warm–neutral–cool) EXPORT TAB ✓ CSS Custom Properties export ✓ Tailwind CSS config export ✓ SCSS variables export ✓ JSON export (HEX + RGB + HSL) ✓ Sketch / Figma reference export ✓ Export current color, history, or palette ✓ Custom variable name input ✓ Copy to clipboard ✓ Download as file ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆓 FREE. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Best Color Picker is completely free. There is no premium tier, no ads, no account to create, and no data collected. Install it once and use every feature immediately. If you work with color — install it today.