While I was on Reddit (using the excellent Apollo for iOS) this weekend, I came across a fun new application that I am glad I now have. It’s called Aurora. Aurora is a simple color picker for macOS ...

Developer John Calhoun tells the story of working on the Mac color picker in the mid-1990s, including how he independently added the crayon color picker without any oversight from design or marketing.

Back in September, I wrote about the secrets of the Color Picker, that small dialog box through which you set colors in many OS X applications. In that article, I discussed the various ways of getting ...

Pixelmator Pro 1.6 has been released with an all-new color picker that streamlines color management in the app, plus an improved way to select multiple objects in an image. The lion’s share of ...

I’ve been using a Mac for several years now, and I had no idea that the Color Picker built into OS X could accept image files. A recent Bjango blog post covers some clever uses for sampling images and ...