Color picker

A while back I downloaded the free Iconico colorpicker. I guess there are a lot of colorpickers around, but I’ve always been satisfied with this this one.

I’m going to give you a few instructions on how to use the colorpicker to help you select colors for your html site—such as Niteflirt—backgrounds and text colors mostly.

A few colors are named in html, and you can use these names in building your site. But there are millions of possible colors, and to use most of them you must find the hexcode for the color and use that instead. A hexcode takes the form “#” plus 6 letters or numerals. So “#ffffff” is the hexcode for white, and “#000000″ is the hexcode for black, both of which are named colors.

Take a look at the color pic window, which sits on top of other windows on your screen.

The red arrow is pointing at the window where you will find the hexcode for the color the mouse pointer is hovering over. Clicking the tabs at the left of the middle window will give you more options to help finding the exact color you want. There are more instructions on the Iconico site.


Now watch color pic in action.


As you mouse over pixels on your screen, a magnified image appears in the window at the bottom, the color appears in a swatch box, and the hexcode appears in the hexcode text box.

When you find a pixel that is the color you want, hit ‘c’ on your keyboard. The hexcode for that color will be copied to your clipboard, and you can paste it into your page code.

will change your text font.

will change the background of your table.

will change the background of your page in normal html. This doesn’t work on Niteflirt pages, though. To put a solid colored background in a Niteflirt page, you will need to make an image of that color to use instead.