Not particularly useful for the day-to-day user, but remarkably important for web or digital creators/designers, color pickers are simple yet specialized apps that are primarily used to grab color codes (which can be later integrated into websites or other digital projects).
Eyedropper is one such app, a free and open-source color picker that works on most Linux distributions (thanks to Flathub).
Reasons to use Eyedropper
Typically, color pickers are super-simple apps that allow you to grab color and view their RGB and HSL color codes. One aspect that makes Eyedropper stand out is the number of supported color codes. These include RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, and CIE-Lab.
The app is built with GTK and Rust and, we have to say, it looks rather nice and modern. It works just like any other color picker, you grab a color from the desktop, the app displays all the codes, and you’re free to copy these codes to the clipboard directly from the app.
As expected, the app also has a “Random color” feature, if you’re ever looking for a bit of lucky inspiration.
It’s somewhat surprising that Eyedropper has a Settings section. From it, you can choose where the Alphavalue is positioned in the Hexstring (at the start, or at the end), as well as enable or disable the color formats that will be visible within the GUI.
Conclusion and potential future improvements
As it stands, Eyedropper is a surprisingly capable, little color picker tool that should come in handy to most web/digital creators/designers.
Of course, it could have support for more color formats, which is exactly why this is featured in the app’s roadmap. Another feature that might be implemented in the future is the addition of a color palette generator function.
