ColorMania is the perfect solution for previewing, identifying, testing, and organizing color values. It can be a very difficult job to get colors right for a unique or appealing design — ColorMania is designed specifically for this task and gives you full control over your color management.
With the color grabber you can pick any color on your screen, and the screen magnifier makes this even more precise. The RGB and HSL sliders let you manipulate colors in detail, and you can store them in your own custom color schemes or palettes.
ColorMania supports more color formats than any other color picker, making it compatible with a large number of programs (Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator…) and disciplines (web design, printing, UI development and more). It is also integrated as a color dialog in X-Fonter and Texefex.
- RGB and HSV Sliders: Interactively adjust color coordinates with real-time gradient previews.
- Screen Magnifier & Color Grabber: High-precision onscreen eyedropper to capture any pixel from your desktop.
- Multi-Format Color Display: Instant conversion between HTML, Delphi, Photoshop, RGB565, and CSS RGBA.
- Web & HTML Standards: Integrated library of Websafe colors and predefined HTML color codes.
- Palette Management: Save, organize, and manage custom color palettes for your design projects.
- AI-Refactored Engine: Completely modernized core for superior performance and future-proof stability.
- Intelligent Color Sorting: New "Sort by Similarity" algorithm and significantly improved sorting speeds.
- Expanded Color Library: 42 new professionally named colors added to the standard collection.
- Enhanced Transparency Support: Precise Alpha channel control (0–255) for modern UI and Android development.
- Optimized Resource Handling: Critical fixes for memory leaks and improved "Internet Reading" capabilities.
- Refined User Experience: Improved label captions, better keypress detection, and updated palette button displays.
ColorMania is one of the few tools chosen to appear in 'Windows Developer Power Tools' by James Avery and Jim Holmes, published by O'Reilly.
- AI refactoring of core engine
- Memory issue fixed (sorting colors)
- Memory leak fixed (average colors)
- Improved file reading from Internet
- Sort colors speed improved
- Better keypress detection
- Performance improvement for gradient creation
- Label captions improved
- Fixed bug with Saturation value = 0 and scrollbar refresh
- Add color sort by similarity
- 42 named colors added
- Palette buttons and display updated
- Named color list expanded (100+ colors added)
- Hint on color dropdown fixed
- Color name added on palette hint
- Color code follows selected name on palette hint
- RGB565 code included in color code displays
- Alpha channel behavior slightly changed
- Option to auto-copy color code to clipboard after grabbing
- Fixed bug in refresh of color wheel
- Fixed refresh after DPI change
- Default hints in palette removed
- Palette expanded to 16 colors
- Icon buttons modified
- High DPI issues fixed
- Performance of color averaging strongly improved
- Undo/redo handling improved
- Brightness slider from older version restored
- New shortcuts added for different layouts
- Check new version on startup added
- Brightness replaced by Alpha Channel
- Android Transparent Format added
- CSS RGBA Format added
- 64-bit version released
- Set text color to black/white/inverted/contrast features added
- Better color palette handling and responsiveness
- Color list expanded
- Expanded color list (+1,400 named colors)
- UI improved for high contrast view
- Color palettes expanded to 12 slots
- New dropdown sort: by Hue, Saturation, Value, R/G/B, or Name
- Color updating procedures optimized (less CPU usage)
- New digital signature
A full release history is included with the program (readme.txt).