Chrome Extensions Color Picker: Top Picks for Devs & QAs in 2024

You can use Chrome's built-in feature to pick colors from any web page. Alternatively, you can look at the different Chrome extensions for lightweight and feature-rich options. Go check them out now:

Chrome has a built-in color picker that can help you pick colors from web elements, instantly. It’s super intuitive and easy.

Here’s how to get the basic style details with Chrome dev tools:

1. Open the Chrome dev tools. For Windows, use the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + J. On Mac machines, hit CMD + Shift + C. Alternatively, you can right-click on the web page and select “Inspect”.
2. Hover your mouse over the page/web element you need basic style details on.

Here’s how to get more details on the style details with Chrome dev tools:

1. Open dev tools for Chrome.

2. Select any element on the web page that has a color property. For instance, here’s a button color that we are interested in.

3. Select the “Styles” option from the right-hand Chrome menu.

4. Click the small squared color box. For instance, here you click on the background CSS property color box.

5. Next, click the eyedropper icon to open the tool options.

6. Click any element on the page you wish to check. This changes the target select element color to whatever color you chose from the eyedropper.

For instance, if you select the black color shade, the element background color turns to the same shade.

You can change the colors, manipulate saturation levels, copy the hex code, etc. from the bottom right tool window. And that’s how you can use the built-in Chrome color picker.

Here’s an example of how to get the exact color from a logo with the eyedropper tool.

The pixel color selected under the red square box from the Apple logo is what’s your target here.

Also Read: 20 Chrome Extensions for UI/UX Designers in 2024

Here’s a lowdown on all the options available with the built-in Chrome color picker.

1. Color gradient: You can see the exact color gradient with the corresponding tints and shades for the selected color. Move around the circle to change the color values to get a new color.

2. Eyedropper: This lets you turn on the eyedropper tools to enable your mouse to zoom in on a particular pixel on an image or element’s color and identify the color.

3. Copy to clipboard: Click on it to get the hex code of that color copied to your clipboard.

4. Hue slider: Select your desired hue based on the RGB to get different colors with the hue slider.

5. Opacity slider: This lets you select the amount of transparency or opacity you need with your color.

6. HEX color code: Displays the hex code for your color selection.

7. Displays color value in different formats: These switches, when clicked, show your selected color display value in various formats like RGB, HSL, etc.

8. Get color palettes from the page: This lets you visualize the color palette used on the page. You can switch the webpage color from the available options. You can also create your custom color palette.

9. Displays various colors used on the page: Shows the available colors from the palette and on the page.

You can also long-press a specific color and get tints and shades of that color, instantly.

Here are some top Chrome extensions color pickers and their notable features that you can have in your arsenal for 2024. Note that these extensions can prove very handy for software professionals like UI/UX designers, front-end developers, QAs, and others.

ColorZilla

ColorZilla is our top pick. It is widely used by millions for color-related tasks.

ColorZilla offers:

1. An eyedropper to get the exact pixel color value from any page or element. You can get color values in HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, and HSLA color formats.
2. The Ability to pick colors from any zoom level of your cursor.
3. An advanced color picker that is comparable to that of Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
4. A feature to instantly capture colors outside the browser.
5. The ability to auto-copy color value to the clipboard feature. You can also configure the format in which your color values get copied.
6. The tools for adjusting color values by playing around with Hues/Saturations/Values.
7. A webpage Color Analyzer that analyzes DOM elements on your page. This enables you to go through the corresponding web elements with ease and devs can benefit from it.
8. 7 pre-installed and ready-to-use color palettes from the built-in Palette Viewer.
9. Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator to generate and use the desired gradient color schemes. You can get previews, select orientations, configure color value formats, and much more. ColorZilla has a very comprehensive CSS gradient generation tool.
10. 135+ presets for gradients.
11. Support to create and save custom color gradients.
12. Feature to import image gradient directly to CSS.
13. Option to share gradients as permalinks.
14. Color history for recently used colors.
15. Instant color picker panel to add your desired color in a grid-like pattern for current or future use.
16. Easily configurable keyboard shortcut to quickly sample colors on your page.
17. Support for Chrome and Firefox.

Price: Free

Users: 4 million+

Chrome Web Store Average Rating: 4.5 / 5

Download Link: ColorZilla

CSS Peeper

CSS Peeper is a solid choice. It’s super easy to use, feature-rich, lightweight, and comes with an impressive and modern UI.

With CSS Peeper, you can:

1. Visualize object CSS properties like line height, button size, margin, padding, box-shadow, border radius, etc. QAs can instantly visualize any UI issues with such comprehensive information.
2. Inspect font typefaces like font-family, font-size, line-height, text-align, and letter-spacing.
3. Inspect CSS classes for webpage elements with built-in Inspector, making it dev-friendly.
4. Get the color palette from the entire webpage with opacity percentages for each color picked.
5. Pick colors and get a palette from a specific web element on a web page.
6. Get the entire color palette from a web page and copy and paste them with a click.
7. Easily export visual assets from a web page like colors, images, SVG, or logos to a zip file. You can also export the deeply nested components within the code from your web page.
8. Get the time elapsed for the CSS load for your webpage. You can also get the CSS file size info instantly on the CSS Peeper UI. You can analyze them to make improvements to your web pages if required.

Price: Free

Users: 500,000+

Chrome Web Store Average Rating: 4.6 / 5

Download Link: CSS Peeper

Also Read: Top 20 Chrome Extensions for Web Developers in 2024

Chroma: Eyedropper & Color Picker Tool

Chroma is our next pick. It’s the most recent tool among the others. Chroma packs a lot of features along with a material design, flexible, clean, and easy-to-use UI. Apart from the eyedropper and color picker tool from the extension, you get extra tools namely Tints and Shades Generator and Gradient Palette from the Chroma website.

Chroma offers:

1. An eyedropper tool to get pixel color values from inside and outside of your webpage or viewport. You can get these color values in HEX/RGB/HSL formats.
2. Compact, modern-looking, highly functional, and option-rich toolbar.
3. Option to move around the Chroma toolbar by dragging on your screen.
4. One-click copy-to-clipboard feature for your colors.
5. Option to toggle eyedropper mode while you open the extension.
6. A color palette builder to manage, modify, and play around with your colors making it very practical and intuitive for color-related tasks.
7. Palette sorting feature to have better control over your palettes.
8. Light and dark color UI theme options.
9. Color history panel to quickly glance over your color selections.
10. Tints and shades generator tools with custom configurations. You can also generate random Tints and Shades with a dedicated button.
11. The gradient palette generator in Chroma lets you create your color gradient palettes and also generate random palettes with a dedicated button
12. Support for Chrome, Edge, and Brave browsers.
13. Lag-free experience.

Price: Free

Users: 10,000+

Chrome Web Store Average Rating: 4.8 / 5

Download Link: Chroma: Eyedropper & Color Picker Tool