Designers and developers constantly need color values in different formats for CSS, design tools, and code. This tool lets you pick any color visually or type in a HEX code, and instantly get the equivalent values in HEX, RGB, and HSL — ready to copy with one click. It also generates 10 shades of your chosen color automatically.
Below your chosen color, this tool shows 10 shades ranging from dark to light. These are useful for creating button hover states, backgrounds, borders, and text that all stay within the same color family. Click any shade to copy its HSL value.
Web designers and front-end developers use it daily to match brand colors, build color palettes, and write CSS. Graphic designers use it to identify exact color codes from reference images. Anyone building a website, app, or presentation who needs precise color values.
HEX (e.g. #FF5733) is a base-16 representation of RGB values, commonly used in CSS and web design. RGB (e.g. rgb(255, 87, 51)) specifies the red, green, and blue components from 0-255. HSL (e.g. hsl(11, 100%, 60%)) represents hue, saturation, and lightness, making it more intuitive to adjust brightness and saturation.
A HEX code like #FF5733 represents three pairs of hexadecimal values: FF (red), 57 (green), 33 (blue). Convert each pair from hex to decimal: FF = 255, 57 = 87, 33 = 51. So #FF5733 = rgb(255, 87, 51). This color picker does this conversion automatically.
Color pickers help designers select and convert colors for use in CSS, HTML, or graphic design tools. Web developers use them to match brand colors, ensure accessibility contrast ratios, and convert colors between formats for different parts of a project.
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requires a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 between text and background for standard text, and 3:1 for large text. Poor contrast makes content unreadable for people with visual impairments. Meeting WCAG guidelines is both an accessibility best practice and increasingly a legal requirement.
Right-click any element on a web page and choose Inspect (or Inspect Element). In the browser's DevTools, find the element's CSS and look for color or background-color properties. Chrome DevTools also has a built-in eyedropper tool. Browser extensions like ColorZilla can also pick colors from any pixel on screen.