PowerToys - Color Picker

📣 This app is part of the Microsoft PowerToys bundle and cannot be downloaded separately.

ColorPicker is a system-wide color picking utility activated with Win+Shift+C. Pick colors from anywhere on the screen, the picker automatically copies the color into your clipboard in a set format. Color Picker contains an editor that shows a history of previously picked colors, allows you to fine-tune the selected color and to copy different string representations.

Enabling Color Picker To start using Color Picker, enable it in the PowerToys Settings (Color Picker tab).

Activating Color Picker Once enabled, you can choose one of the following three behaviors to be executed when opening Color Picker with the activation shortcut (default: Win+Shift+C).

• Open editor:Opens editor window directly, from here you can choose a color from the history, fine-tune a selected color, or capture a new color by opening the color picker.
• Pick a color and open editor: Opens Color Picker. After selecting a color, the editor is opened and the selected color is copied to the clipboard (in the default format - configurable in the Settings dialog).
• Only pick a color: Opens Color Picker only and the selected color will be copied to the clipboard.

Selecting colors After the Color Picker is activated, hover your mouse cursor over the color you would like to copy and left-click the mouse button to select a color. If you want to see the area under your cursor in more detail, scroll up to zoom in. The copied color will be stored in your clipboard in the format that is configured in the settings (default: HEX).

Settings Color Picker has the following settings:

• Activation shortcut
• Activation behavior
• Default color format, such as HEX, RGB, and more.
• Show color name shows a high-level representation of the color. For example: Light Green, Green, Dark Green.
• Order and presence of color formats in the editor