PlainColor

Lightweight, versatile, cross-platform color picker app written in Rust / Tauri

⬇️ Download

• macOS: dmg
• Windows: exe | microsoft store | chocolatey - Coming soon...
• Linux: flathub | appimage | deb - Coming soon...

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Picker - Pick a color from your screen with advanced magnifying glass
• 🎨 Custom palettes - Organize your colors with palettes. Name colors and add them to palettes to use in your projects
  • Export palette to JSON CSS / SASS variables JavaScript object
  • Import colors from JSON Tailwind CSS default colors
• 📋 A lot of color formats - Copy your colors as:
  • #HEX HEX #hex hex
  • rgb() R,G,B color(display-p3)
  • hsl() H,S,L
  • cmyk() C,M,Y,K
• 🍎 Great macOS support
  • Works on top of menu bar and fullscreen windows

Coming soon

• ⬛ Shades
• ⬜ Tints
• 🔲 Contrast checker
• 🖼️ Extract palette from image
  • K-Mean Algorithm
  • Dominant Colors

Want more? Open a new issue or 👍 an existing one so we can talk about it.

🐞 Bug report

If you want to report a bug, first, thank you, that helps us a lot. Please open an issue and mention your OS, your PlainColor version, and how to reproduce it. Adding a screenshot of the issue or screen recording is a big help too.

🔮 Roadmap

v1.0.9

• ❗ Check if PlainColor JSON is correctly typed so it cannot broke the app
• ❗ Fix: All new colors are named as Main Shaft
• ❗ Settings: Add "Reset to defaults" button
• ❗ Improve list performance (infinite scroll)
• ❗ Fix: Color/Palette name white-space
• ❗ Fix context menu height (check on different window heights)
• ❗ Hide context menu on scroll
• ❗ Animation on export palette content copied
• ❗ Fix: Cannot copy/select text in inputs/textareas
• ❗ ColorCard: Add ability to type/paste HEX value
• Picker: Pinch to zoom
• Move picker with arrows (step = 1px), make sure it cannot be out of screen bounds
• Instant copy shortcut CommandOrControl+Shift+C
• Export to image (with preview, mb use canvas)
• Prepend default palette: Apple colors (integrate with import feature?)

v1.1.x

• ❗ Add updater
• ❗ Better color wheel: Add inputs for values (hex, rgba, etc.)
• Add ability to reorder colors
• More color formats:
  • Common:
    • 🖥️ RGB/RGBA from 0 to 1 0,36; 0,18; 0,57
    • 🎨 HSB/HSV 268, 69, 57
    • 💈 Oklab oklch(40.1% 0.123 21.57)
  • Native:
    • 🖥️ NSColor RGB
    • 🖥️ NSColor HSB
    • 📱 UIColor RGB
    • 📱 UIColor HSB
    • 🐦‍⬛ SwiftUI Color HSB
    • 🐦‍⬛ Swift Color Literal
    • 🖥️ Obj-C NSColor Calibrated RGB
    • 📱 Obj-C UIColor RGB
    • 🌊 .NET RGB/ARGB
    • ☕ Java RGB/RGBA
    • 📱 Android RGB/ARGB
  • Custom color formatter
• Add ability to change global shortcuts
• Add picker sound (Funny mouth sound, with ability to turn off)
• New button pressed animation: scale down
• Control Select with arrows up/down