How can I get a HEX code entry into the Color Chooser for Mavericks?
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You can get the Hex Color Picker:


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1Also see http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/16717/how-can-i-find-color-codes-on-mac and http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/18353/how-can-i-get-the-hexadecimal-functionality-of-digital-colormeter-back – bmike Jan 21 '14 at 20:25
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I have updated my answer to include a custom picker – markhunte Jan 22 '14 at 00:12
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This is a plugin for the standard color picker. Unfortunately, it does not work for me. For some reason the hex picker returns wrong hex values. E.g. a full red image (#ff000000) created in photoshop, is evaluated as #f70016. See a screenshot here: http://o7.no/1mQpv4Z – Kurt UXD May 13 '14 at 05:35
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1Those differences are due to your display color profile. Nothing to do with the app. The photoshop color is just converted through your display colorprofile into a value that is shown on the screen. If you pick it you get the converted color. – woens Apr 29 '18 at 10:46
Go to the Palette Tab.
Change the selection to 'Web Safe Colors'

This will give you:

Update :
I made a quick app so I could create a custom HEX picker palette using the colours found at http://www.w3schools.com's html_colornames
UPDATE: I found a list at : http://www.colourlovers.com ultimate-html-color-hex-code-list I Combined the two lists : The process I use automaticlly removes repeats. The Palette now holds about 1520 HEX Colors.
You can down load the .clr file here.
Place the file inside of you home Colors folder:
~/Library/Colors/
Some apps may need to be relaunched before their colour picker picks it up. The New Picker can be found in the Palettes drop down menu.


If I get time I will also put on my blog the App. But I would need to change it a bit so it can be used to add any set of HEX codes. Or if any one knows where the is the ultimate HEX code list. I will try and convert that.
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Can I type a HEX code into this? I couldn't figure out how to. – Nicholas Pappas Jan 21 '14 at 18:20
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Much better than the accepted answer, that app seems to be abandoned... – brasofilo Oct 16 '14 at 01:15