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Color matching app for graphic designers and webmasters that provides perfection and ease of use

Color matching app for graphic designers and webmasters that provides perfection and ease of use

Vote: (55 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Nattyware

Version: 4.1

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(55 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Nattyware

4.1

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Very small program - only 11 KB in size
  • Free with no ads
  • Provides color values in all formats

Cons

  • No other functions besides color picking

Accurately match colors with this tiny app.

Pixie is a free utility designed for graphic designers, webmasters and anyone else working on a project that requires them to match exact colors. Using it is very easy. You just run the application, which shows up as a small window that appears on top of your running programs. Then, mouse over any object on your screen for which you want color information. Pixie will instantly show you the color's RGB, hex, HTML, CMYK and HSV values, in addition to the coordinates of your mouse pointer.

You can then reproduce the exact color in any program that supports choosing colors by entering a value. This is the case for nearly all of the more advanced image editors, photo manipulation tools, video editors, web development tools and document design programs. Using color values is a much more accurate way of matching colors than by picking a color from a palette or color wheel. If the area for which you want color information is very small, Pixie has an image magnifier tool that lets you enlarge it so that you can get accurate color information right down to a single pixel.

Pixie is a very small and portable application. There's no installation process, so all you have to do after downloading the program is to run its tiny 11 KB .EXE file. Pixie works on any PC with Windows 2000 or higher. The program is completely free and never displays any ads or offers to download other apps.

Having the ability to match colors exactly can come in handy if you're designing a logo, graphic elements for a program's user interface, website, icon or are simply working on an art project. Pixie's only function is to serve as a color picker tool and it does this perfectly. While some users may wish that it had more features, this program is quite useful despite only having one function and can complement other graphic design tools with different uses.

Pros

  • Very small program - only 11 KB in size
  • Free with no ads
  • Provides color values in all formats

Cons

  • No other functions besides color picking