Click anywhere on the image and read that exact pixel as HEX, RGB and HSL. The picture is displayed scaled to fit your screen, so the click is converted back to real pixel coordinates before the colour is read — without that step you get the pixel next to the one you aimed at, and when two shades are close nobody notices. The last twelve colours are kept; click a swatch to copy it.
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Yes, and that is the part worth stating. The image is shown scaled down to fit the screen, so a click at 400 pixels across a displayed image is somewhere else entirely in the real file. The click is converted using the ratio between the displayed size and the true size before the pixel is read. Skip that and you get a neighbouring pixel — which on a photograph is usually a slightly different shade, and therefore a wrong answer that looks right.
The palette tool looks at the whole picture and works out the colours that dominate it. This one answers a narrower question: what is the colour at this exact point. Use the palette when you want a scheme from a photograph, and this when you need to match one specific thing — a logo, a background, a line in a chart.
Because HSL is shown in whole degrees and percentages, which is coarser than the 256 levels per channel that the HEX value holds. The HEX and RGB figures are exact; treat HSL as the one for reasoning about hue and lightness rather than as a lossless copy.
It reads the colour channels at that point. Where the image is fully transparent there is no meaningful colour to report, so what you get is whatever the file stores underneath the transparency — often black. Click somewhere the picture is actually drawn.
Yes, and that is the part worth stating. The image is shown scaled down to fit the screen, so a click at 400 pixels across a displayed image is somewhere else entirely in the real file. The click is converted using the ratio between the displayed size and the true size before the pixel is read. Skip that and you get a neighbouring pixel — which on a photograph is usually a slightly different shade, and therefore a wrong answer that looks right.
The palette tool looks at the whole picture and works out the colours that dominate it. This one answers a narrower question: what is the colour at this exact point. Use the palette when you want a scheme from a photograph, and this when you need to match one specific thing — a logo, a background, a line in a chart.
Because HSL is shown in whole degrees and percentages, which is coarser than the 256 levels per channel that the HEX value holds. The HEX and RGB figures are exact; treat HSL as the one for reasoning about hue and lightness rather than as a lossless copy.
It reads the colour channels at that point. Where the image is fully transparent there is no meaningful colour to report, so what you get is whatever the file stores underneath the transparency — often black. Click somewhere the picture is actually drawn.
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