ColorMania 14.0

Platform: Win 10/11
Size: 3029 KB
Type: Freeware

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ColorMania : Color Picker

Advanced Color Picker Utility

Colormania is an advanced color picker utility, especially created
for web-designers, graphic artists and application developers.

It supports various color models and is able to pick colors
from anywhere on your screen. Accuracy on pixel level is
even made easier with the built-in screen magnifier.

• Building a website and want to get your colors right ?
• Working with graphics and need a detailed view ?
• Need accuracy in your work when identifying colors ?

ColorMania is a colorpicker for Windows. It's the perfect solution for previewing, identifying, testing and organizing color values. It can be a very difficult job to get your 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 easier for you. The RGB and HSL sliders allow you to manipulate these colors in detail and you can store the colors you want in your own custom color schemes or palettes.

ColorMania supports more color formats than any other color picker and can therefore be used in combination with a large number of other graphical programs (Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator,..) and in different areas (web design, printing,...).

Take the guesswork out of color selection and elevate your design process with ColorMania. Download now and experience the best in color management and customization for Windows.

The following formats are supported :
- HTML Color Codes (Hex / CSS) : the most common color code in used in webdesign
- Delphi Hex : used with Borland's Delphi language
- VB Hex : used with Microsoft's Visual Basic
- C++ Hex : used with C++
- RGB Values : Red/Green/Blue used in many paint programs
- RGB% Values : Red/Green/Blue used in some DTP as well as paint programs
- HSV Values : Hue/Saturation/Value-Brightness used in graphics programs
- CMY : Cyan/Magenta/Yellow also used in paint programs
- CMYK : Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/BlacK used in DTP, paint programs
- HLS : Hue/Lightness/Saturation
- Photoshop : Used in Adobe Photoshop color picker
- Powerbuilder : Used in Powerbuilder development environment (Sybase)
- Android Transparent Format
- CSS RGBA Format
- RGB565 : embedded devices and microcontrollers

ColorMania is a standalone color picker, but it is also integrated as a color dialog in some of our other products, like our font manager X-Fonter and our text effects program Texefex.

Features

- Interactively change RGB and HSV values
- Onscreen Eyedropper (Color grabber) / Screen Magnifier
- Color display in different formats (including photoshop)
- Websafe colors and predefined HTML Color codes
- Save Color Palettes
- Intuitive Interface
- Uninstall support

New in this version

version 14.0 : July 2024
- Named color list expanded (100+ colors added)
- Hint on color dropdown fixed
- Color Name added on Palette hint
- Color Code follows selected Name added on Palette hint
- RGB565 Code included in Color Code displays
- Alpha Channel behavior slightly changed

version 12.1 : November 2020
- Option added to copy color code automatically to clipboard after grabbing
- Fixed bug in refresh Colorwheel
- Fixed refresh after dpi change
- default hints in palette removed

version 12.0 : June 2020
- Palette expanded to 16 colors
- Icon buttons modified
- High DPI issues fixed
- Font size issues fixed
- Performance strongly improved of color averaging
- Undo/redo handling improved
- Brightness slider from older version restored (switch between brightness/alpha)
- New shortcuts added for different layouts
- Check new version on startup added

version 11.0 : May 2020
- Brightness replaced by Alpha Channel
- Android Transparent Format Added
- CSS RGBA Format Added

version 10.1 : March 2020
- 64bit version
- Set text color to black/white/inverted color/contrast color features added
- better Color palette handling
- better responsiveness for color changes
- Color list expanded

version 10.0 : December 2018
- Color Dropdown restored to old version but improved, simply because it looks better.
- Expanded Color List added ( + 1400 named colors)
- UI improved for High Contrast view
- Color Palettes expanded to 12 slots
- You can switch between HTML colors and full Named color list
- New dropdown menu : Sort Color List by Hue, Saturation or Value, als R, G and B and finally also by Name
- Color updating procedures optimized (less cpu usage)
- New digital signature

Version 6.3 : April 2017
- Option added to display Color Codes in uppercase or lowercase.
- Eyedropper cursor restored.

Version 6.2 : Februari 2017
- Added extra 'Settings' button
- Added extra setting 'Stay in System Tray'.
- small UI tweaks.

Version 6.1 : February 2017
- Colormania stays active in system tray after screen is closed
- Left click on icon can show/hide program
- Popup menu items disabled when extra screens active
- Extra menu item to allow automatic run on startup
- Added some optional command line parameters
- Install procedure improved

Version 6.0
- a problem with 'large Text' was fixed
- VB Hex color is now displayed in uppercase
- HTML color combobox changed
- small additional UI changes were made to make it look better on windows 10
- command line parameter support (HTML Hex Color code)

Version 5.1
- We fixed an issue with the stayontop feature of ColorMania.
- The powerbuilder color format was added to the list.
- The color grabber now supports color averaging. This can be done based on 3x3 or 5x5 pixels.
This feature makes it a lot easier to find the color that most matches the general color of the original image.
- When using color palettes, the palette name is now also visible.
- The screen layout got some major changes. The colormania screen got a big darker, so that the colors are better visible.
- The program icon was changed so that it's more obvious that ColorMania is a color picker.
- The icon was also added in the system tray, which makes the options menu more accesible.

• a full release history with changes is included with the program (readme.txt).

Awards

ColorMania is one of the few tools that was chosen to appear in the book 'Windows Developer Power Tools' from James Avery and Jim Holmes (published by O'Reilly)