Color Sniffer: Making HEX and RGB Color Detection a Breeze
👆 Click anywhere on this page before CTRL + V
| HEX | RGB |
|---|---|
| HEX CODE | RGB CODE |
Click anywhere on the canvas to keep the colour value here (above) ⬆️
Hover over the canvas to see the colour value.
How to Use
- We can paste image from the clipboard to the canvas. Before pasting (CTRL + V) it, please click anywhere on this page first.
- We can also use an image file from local drive. To do that, we can either click
Choose Filebutton to pick an image, or simply drag and drop the image file to this page. - Once the image is placed on the canvas, we can hover the mouse cursor over the image. The colour of that particular pixel will be shown while we're hovering 🤔
- Once we spot the colour we're interested in, we need to click it so the colour code will be kept on the bottom table.
- The HEX and RGB colour codes can be selected and automatically copied to the clipboard once they're clicked.
Background
Sometimes, we saw a neat image with interesting colour on it. This tool can detect it. Well, if we bring the image here. 🙂 Can't directly access our mind, this tool.
✅ No image data is sent to anywhere.
Anyway, "sniffing" is related to odour sensing, which is done by the nose. This is vision related. Let us ponder for about two seconds and then distract our thoughts with this magnificent image below.
Magnifying Glass, Activate!
Colour = color.
Or, color = colour.
"Colour" was first introduced by the Normans (Norman conquest) — Old French. "Introduced", with blades I presume. Prior that, Old English (Anglo-Saxon) used hÄ«ew or blæcnes for shade or hue. The Old French got it from Latin "color".
And then there was Noah Webster. He reckoned spelling should reflect pronunciation and be simplified. Hence, "color". Which coincidentally is the root Latin "color".
So, the word timeline goes like this:
COLOR (Latin — Roman) ➡️ COLOUR (Old French — Norman) ➡️ COLOUR (English — since around 12th century, spelling "stuck") ➡️ COLOR (US — 19th century)
Similar to the word "odour". From Latin "odor". Chronology goes exactly like above. And the US said they're the "New Rome". Did you notice the... bit from those two words?
Webster didn't bloody care about Latin, he was being "efficient". And... what do you know? The loop. The cosmic jest.
English is quite comical, I just need to put it here. This is merely the tip of the tip of the tip of an iceberg's tip. And we have IELTS and TOEFL. Oi, you blimey talk to bacon can't? Scored 3,000.