Common Color

Pick any color. Paste it as code.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

No permission.

Press ⌃⇧⌘C and click any pixel in macOS’s own loupe. Color gets that one color, never your screen, so there’s nothing to allow.

Your format.

Hex, rgb(), hsl(), oklch(), Display P3, SwiftUI or AppKit, converted correctly between color spaces. A card by the pointer says what was copied.

Picks and contrast.

The last 12 picks stay a click away, with the WCAG contrast between the newest two and whether it passes AA and AAA.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonColor.zip, unzip it, and move Common Color to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Color.
  3. Set it up Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and paste. Choose the format it pastes in Settings.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- color. Every step, with checksums, is in the install guide.

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