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Eyedropper Color Picker

Pick a colour from anywhere on your screen.

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Pick a colour

Or drop an image and sample from it

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Quick Tool Overview

The Eyedropper Color Picker uses the browser EyeDropper API to sample a colour from anywhere on your screen — another tab, an app, a video — and falls back to picking from an uploaded image where that API is not available.

What it does
Picks a colour from your screen or an image
You give it
A click, or a screenshot
You get back
Every notation, plus a session history
Best for
Matching a colour you can see but cannot copy
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About the Eyedropper Color Picker

Click the eyedropper, then click anywhere on your screen — another tab, a design tool, a video, a PDF — and the colour under the cursor is captured with every notation ready to copy. No extension, no download.

This uses the browser EyeDropper API, which is a deliberately careful piece of design. A page cannot read your screen: the picker is drawn by the browser itself, you choose the pixel, and only that one colour is handed back. The page never sees anything else.

Support is the catch — the API is in Chrome, Edge and Opera but not Safari or Firefox — so the tool falls back to picking from an uploaded or pasted image, which works everywhere. Drop a screenshot in and sample from it, with a magnifier for pixel-level accuracy and an average-over-area option for photographs, where a single pixel is rarely the colour you actually want. Every colour you pick is kept in a session history so a sampling run does not mean copying one value at a time.

Key features of the Eyedropper Color Picker

Anywhere on screen

Other tabs, other applications, video and PDFs — the browser samples the display, not the page.

Private by design

The browser draws the picker and returns only the pixel you click. The page never sees your screen.

Image fallback

Drop a screenshot in where the API is unavailable, which covers Safari and Firefox.

Magnifier and averaging

Land on the exact pixel, or average an area — which is what a photograph usually needs.

Session history

Every colour you pick is kept, so a sampling run does not mean copying one value at a time.

How to use the Eyedropper Color Picker

  1. 1

    Click the eyedropper

    Then click anywhere on your screen, in any application.

  2. 2

    Or drop an image

    A screenshot or a photograph, if your browser has no eyedropper.

  3. 3

    Sample precisely

    The magnifier shows individual pixels; the average option samples an area.

  4. 4

    Copy from the history

    Every colour you picked is kept for the session, in any notation.

Frequently asked questions

Chrome, Edge and Opera on desktop. Safari and Firefox do not implement the EyeDropper API, and on those the tool uses the image-based picker instead, which works the same way once you have a screenshot.

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