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What is the best free color picker?

Short answer

The best free color picker lets you land on an exact color visually and hands you the value in every format you need. A browser-based picker gives you an eyedropper wheel with instant HEX, RGB and HSL readouts you can copy in one click, free, with no install and no account.

What separates a good picker from a swatch page

Plenty of color sites only show fixed palettes or make you type values by hand. A picker is only useful if you can move around the color space freely, read the exact value the moment you settle on it, and copy it without retyping. Watch for pages where the picker is a teaser and the copyable values sit behind a sign-up.

Pick from a wheel or straight from an image

The browser-based picker gives you a visual eyedropper wheel with live HEX, RGB and HSL values and one-click copy. When the color you want already exists in a photo or screenshot, a companion image color picker lets you load the image and click any pixel to read its HEX and RGB values, and because it runs client-side the image is never uploaded.

Frequently asked questions

Which color formats does it give me?

HEX, RGB and HSL values, each copyable with one click.

Can I pick a color from a photo?

Yes. The image color picker lets you click any pixel of an image to read its HEX and RGB values.

Is the image uploaded when I pick from it?

No. The image is read locally in your browser and never sent to a server.

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