Pipette — Color Picker, Eyedropper & Color Wheel: Palettes & CSS Export

About

Pipette is a precision color picker for people who work with color: a magnifying loupe with a real pixel grid, a proper color wheel, and exports that go straight into your code.

PICK
• Loupe eyedropper — magnified pixel grid with live hex readout, right under your cursor
• Screen picker — grab a color from any window or app, not just the browser
• Keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+P) and a popup for 5-second grabs
• Last 20 picks always at hand

FORMATS
• HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK and the nearest CSS color name
• One-click copy on every format; your default format is auto-copied on pick

COLOR WHEEL
• Complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic harmonies
• RGB or artists' RYB color model
• Lightness control, live handles, save any harmony as a palette

BUILD
• H/S/L and R/G/B sliders with live preview
• Automatic shade / tint / tone ramps
• Gradient builder with CSS linear-gradient() output

PALETTES
• Save, rename, reorder (drag & drop)
• Extract a palette from any image — drop, paste or browse
• Scan the colors of any live web page

ACCESSIBILITY
• WCAG contrast checker — AA / AAA, normal and large text
• Color-blindness preview: protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia

EXPORT
• CSS variables, Tailwind config, SCSS, JSON, plain hex list
• Adobe swatch files: .ase (Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma) and .aco (Photoshop)

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Free forever. No account, no tracking, no analytics, zero network calls. Everything stays on your machine.

Tip: if Alt+Shift+P doesn't respond, set the shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts (Chrome sometimes leaves suggested shortcuts unassigned).