Whether you're a graphic designer, a web developer, or a programmer, sometimes you need to precisely duplicate a color you see on the screen to use in your work. And one tool up for the job is Color ...

If you’ve used a Mac for any length of time at all, you’re probably familiar with the Color Picker. The Color Picker is a small floating window through which you can choose colors for text, objects, ...

As I stated in my post HTML5 Date Picker, Opera 11 is ahead of some of the other non-beta web browsers in implementing some of the expected HTML5 tags. In this post, I look at Opera’s implementation ...

Swiss style graphic design focuses on abstract geometric patterns and uncommon color combinations. It makes for some great inspiration. German designer Fabian Burghardt has created the Swiss Style ...

Most days, I focus on a single product in Mac Gems; today I’m going to cover a couple plugins for Mac OS X that offer simple but useful features. Granted, Hex Color Picker is accessible only in ...

In the world of software, a grayed-out or disabled Web link, button, menu item or tool can be like a nightclub bouncer denying you access through the doors. Although the Adobe Photoshop image -editing ...

Developer John Calhoun tells the story of working on the Mac color picker in the mid-1990s, including how he independently added the crayon color picker without any oversight from design or marketing.