2/14/2024 0 Comments Macbook color pickerAnd black changed its name from obsidian to licorice. If it weren’t for ‘one more thing’: its crayon colour picker doesn’t even know the word for red anymore – at least in German it’s called apple now. And they added extra features like a colour clipboard where you can store your favourite colour, a tool to pick up colour from any position on screen and the ability to have plugins add extra colour pickers (which is needed, even, as Apple ‘forgot’ to include a proper HTML colour picker in their OS and you’ll have to use the RCWebColorPicker plugin for that).Īll in all, I’m quite happy with the OS X colour picker. Obvious things to do but still great work (or great keeping things from the Next days). By making it floating (rather than modal) and resizable to very small sizes (rather than a fixed size). And in an amazing feat of user interface improvement Apple managed to improve their colour picker a lot. On the other hand, they get red and blue (but not green or yellow) right.īut a new age has come since. And I have never heard anyone ask me to plase ‘turn that text obsidian’. You see ‘ Obsidian’ in the screenshot above? I’d usually name that colour black. However, some of those names just don’t make sense. While I probably don’t even actively know that many names for colours, I still think that it’s a sweet idea to do that as it gives people an easy way to remember the colour they used before. You see the colours have written names for them. Exactly the kind of ‘getting things right’ that I love to see. Pretty, simple, natural, very neat and with attention to detail. Even better, it shows you a little scribble of the colour you selected – which is even drawn live and slightly differently for each colour you choose. Sure, there are millions of colours in the computer but how many of them can the average person tell apart? The crayon picker gives you a very natural way to choose the colour that will do for most people. And I’ve loved the crayon picker ever since I first saw it. It came with a number of modules to pick colours: RGB, CMYK, HLS, HSV and the Crayon picker. Not only because of the consistent user interface they give you across applications but also because having someone dedicated to programming a colour picker at Apple will most likely give much better results than every shareware author making his own simple one.Īnd indeed, the colour picker used to be quite good in the Classic days. They are one of those things which really benefit from being part of the OS. Colour Pickers go quite some time back in the Mac OS.
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