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How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)

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  • Things I've tried which haven't worked: I've checked the manual and Google of course, and I've tried looking through the default Apple color picker which I could swear used to let you choose this (I'm now on OS X 10.7).
    – tog22
    Jan 15 '13 at 10:45
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Skala Color is another solution, that works very well in the latest versions of Mac OSX.

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You can select HEX to appear in place of the RGB code, which appears in the above picture.

I used Hex Color Picker for a long time but finally got tired of it trying to be smarter than me. Frequently I would type a single character and it filled in all 6 values for that same number; other times I would get through 2 characters and Hex Color Picker would repeat that. For whatever reason, I had to constantly copy/paste values into the picker, because it kept thinking it knew what I wanted (it didn't).

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  • I just installed this. It only works now with TextEdit and Mail. No longer works with Pages, Keynote or Numbers. You will need to use the answer from @user173032.
    – Pamela Cook - LightBe Corp
    Apr 7 '18 at 18:35
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In newer versions of the stock OS X Colors utility: Select sliders from the toolbar and then "RGB Sliders" in the drop down - this will allow you to both read and enter RGB values hex:

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Not sure in which version of OS X this was introduced, but it's relatively newish.

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Use Hex Color Picker:

         

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  • this tool is abandoned now
    – Nikolai Golub
    Jan 17 '17 at 10:56
  • I'm finding it not as stable with newer versions of OS.
    – Pamela Cook - LightBe Corp
    Apr 7 '18 at 18:22
  • I did some more checking. It only works now with TextEdit and Mail. No longer works with Pages, Keynote or Numbers. You will need to use the answer from @user173032.
    – Pamela Cook - LightBe Corp
    Apr 7 '18 at 18:34

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