ColorTagGen - Simple HTML color converter

Oct 18, '05 10:48:00AM

Contributed by: robg

ColorTagGen imageThe macosxhints Rating:
10 of 10
[Score: 10 out of 10]

This week's PotW is a simple, free, and amazingly handy utility for those of us who dabble with colors on the web. As most of you probably know, when setting a color in HTML and/or CSS, you can specify it by one of a handful of names, or reference it by its hex-encoded RGB value. So instead of "blue," you could use "#3300FF." Getting these hex-encoded values for a given color is simple in almost any graphics program. In my case, I use Photoshop Elements; select a color in the color picker, and its RGB value shoes up in the window.

However, Elements is a relatively large program, and I don't always have it running. Also, after picking a color, you also have to then select and copy the RGB value if you wish to use it. So I went looking for a third-party (freeware) RGB color selector that was faster to load and use. After looking at about 15 of them, I found one that really works perfectly for me -- ColorTagGen. This simple little app displays the standard Apple color selector, as well as its own dialog box. Choose a color in the selector, and you get an instant display of its RGB value, as well as the hex-encoded RGB value. There's also a very handy Copy HTML button, which puts the hex-encoded value on your clipboard, saving some mouse and keyboard work.

A simple little program, and there are probably another 25 like it that I didn't find in my brief search ... but ColorTagGen seems to be perfect for my occasional needs outside of Photoshop Elements.

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