Professional color picker: pick from screen, convert formats, generate palettes, check contrast, and export as CSS, SCSS or JSON.
Users
47
+14 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#112K
#93K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 20 Apr 2026
Users
monthly, 6 months
Latest, 19 Oct 2026:47 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 6 months
Latest, 19 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Best Color Picker
π¨ BEST COLOR PICKER β The Professional Color Tool for Chrome
The most complete, beautiful, and feature-rich color picker extension ever built for Chrome. Whether you are a UI/UX designer, front-end developer, brand strategist, digital artist, or just someone who needs to grab a color from a webpage β Best Color Picker gives you tools that no other extension in the store can match.
Built with a luxury dark interface, silky-smooth interactions, and zero learning curve.
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β‘ WHY CHOOSE BEST COLOR PICKER?
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Most color pickers do one thing: let you pick a color and copy the HEX code. That is where they stop.
Best Color Picker starts there and goes ten steps further.
We built this extension because designers and developers deserve tools that match the quality of their work. Every pixel of the UI is crafted with care. Every feature solves a real problem. No bloat, no upsells, no accounts required β just a beautiful, powerful tool that opens instantly from your browser toolbar.
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π±οΈ FEATURE 1 β NATIVE SCREEN COLOR PICKER
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Click the "Pick" button and your cursor becomes a precision color sampler. Hover over any pixel on your screen β any webpage, any image, any UI element β and click to capture its exact color. No screenshots, no guessing, no browser zoom tricks.
Uses Chrome's native EyeDropper API for pixel-perfect accuracy across all display resolutions, including high-DPI and Retina screens. Works on every website, web app, and browser UI you can see.
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π― FEATURE 2 β FIVE COLOR FORMATS, ALL AT ONCE
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When you pick or enter a color, Best Color Picker instantly converts it into every professional format simultaneously:
β’ HEX β #D4A853 (with optional 8-digit alpha support, e.g. #D4A853BF)
β’ RGB β rgb(212, 168, 83) or rgba(212, 168, 83, 0.75)
β’ HSL β hsl(38, 60%, 58%) or hsla(38, 60%, 58%, 0.75)
β’ HSV β hsv(38, 61%, 83%) β the format used by Photoshop and Figma
β’ CMYK β cmyk(0%, 21%, 61%, 17%) β the format used in print design
Copy any format to your clipboard with a single click. Every value field is also directly editable β type a HEX code, paste an RGB value, or manually adjust any component and the entire picker updates instantly.
Most Chrome color pickers support only HEX and RGB. CMYK support alone makes this extension essential for anyone working across digital and print.
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π¬ FEATURE 3 β PROFESSIONAL HSV COLOR PICKER
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The main color picker uses the same HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) model used by Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma β not the limited wheel-only controls found in most browser extensions.
β’ Large saturation/brightness field β drag to select any shade with precision
β’ Full-spectrum hue slider β sweep through all 360 degrees of the color spectrum
β’ Opacity/alpha slider β set transparency from 0% to 100%
β’ Real-time canvas rendering β every movement updates all values instantly
This is the same color model professional designers use every day. If you know how to use Photoshop's color picker, you already know how to use this.
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π¨ FEATURE 4 β COLOR HARMONY PALETTE GENERATOR
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Start from any color and automatically generate professionally harmonious color palettes using classical color theory:
β’ Complementary β 2 colors directly opposite on the color wheel. Maximum contrast, bold impact.
β’ Analogous β 3 colors adjacent on the wheel. Natural, cohesive, easy on the eye.
β’ Triadic β 3 colors evenly spaced 120Β° apart. Vibrant, balanced, versatile.
β’ Split-Complementary β A base color plus two colors adjacent to its complement. High contrast with less tension.
β’ Square β 4 colors evenly spaced 90Β° apart. Rich variety with balanced harmony.
β’ Tetradic β 4 colors in two complementary pairs. Full, complex palettes for rich designs.
Click any color in the generated palette to copy its HEX code or load it into the picker. Every palette updates live as you adjust your source color.
Also included: a full 12-step Tints & Shades strip that generates every light and dark variation of your color β from near-white to near-black β perfect for building design system color scales.
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π FEATURE 5 β PAGE COLOR EXTRACTOR
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See a website with a color palette you love? Click "Page" and Best Color Picker scans the active tab and extracts every color used in the page's CSS β backgrounds, text, borders, shadows, SVG fills, and more.
All extracted colors appear as a visual swatch grid you can browse instantly. Click any swatch to load that color into the picker. Great for:
β’ Reverse-engineering a brand's color palette
β’ Matching colors when recreating a design
β’ Finding accessibility issues in an existing site
β’ Building a reference library of color combinations you discover while browsing
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βοΈ FEATURE 6 β CSS GRADIENT BUILDER
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Build beautiful CSS gradients visually β no more hand-coding gradient syntax.
β’ Three gradient types: Linear, Radial, and Conic
β’ Add unlimited color stops β drag them along the gradient bar to position them
β’ Adjust the angle of linear and conic gradients with a numeric input (0Β°β360Β°)
β’ Edit each stop's HEX color or position percentage directly
β’ Use the EyeDropper to pick a stop color directly from your screen
β’ The complete, ready-to-paste CSS is generated live:
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D4A853 0%, #6B3FA0 50%, #1A3C6E 100%);
Copy the CSS with one click. No other free Chrome color picker extension includes a gradient builder like this.
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βΏ FEATURE 7 β WCAG CONTRAST CHECKER
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