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How to pick a colour from your screen on a Mac

Grab the exact colour of any pixel on your Mac with the built-in Digital Color Meter, copy it as hex, and convert between hex and RGB.

By Rudra Satani, maker of NotchMind ·

Digital Color Meter

macOS includes a colour picker:

  1. Open Digital Color Meter from Applications → Utilities.
  2. Move the pointer over the colour you want.
  3. Choose View → Display Values → As Hexadecimal to see hex.
  4. Press ⇧ ⌘ C to copy the value as text.

Press ⌘ L to lock the position while you copy.

The system colour panel

In apps with a colour well, such as Pages or Keynote, the colours panel has an eyedropper to pick from anywhere on screen.

Convert it

Copied a hex colour and need RGB, or the other way round? NotchMind, which I make, recognizes a copied colour like #0A84FF or rgb(10, 132, 255) and offers Preview Color and Convert Color. Its Developer Tools page converts too. See developer tools, or do it by hand with hex to RGB.

About the author

Rudra Satani makes NotchMind, a notch app for Mac, so read anything about notch apps here with that in mind. Spotted a mistake? Email support@notchmind.com, or reach out at @rudraxx13.

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