Pika

Pika is a fantastic tool for anyone into development and design. You know how tricky it can be to find the right colors without wasting time or money? That's where Pika comes in! It's a free, open-source color picker that checks all the boxes you need.

Easy to Use Color Picker

Pika is super user-friendly and built with Swift for smooth performance. It gives you just the right features without making things complicated. You can easily pick your foreground and background colors and extract color codes in different formats like Hex, RGB, HSB, and HSL.

Accessibility Matters

This handy app even calculates the contrast ratio of your chosen colors! Plus, it tells you if they're compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Everything fits neatly in a small window on your desktop, so you don’t have to waste time switching between apps.

Getting Started with Pika

To kick things off, you'll want to set up a global hotkey to bring up Pika's main window. If you're not into hotkeys, no worries! Just click on its menu bar icon instead. When Pika pops up, use the eyedropper tool or press ⌘D / ⇧⌘D to grab those foreground or background colors.

Copying Your Colors

Once you've picked your colors and checked that they look good together (thanks to that contrast ratio), just copy them to your clipboard in whatever format works best for you!

Simplifying Your Workflow

A cool idea would be adding a shortcut for picking colors directly without opening the whole app first. This could really save some clicks if you prefer keeping your workspace tidy!

Pika is Always Improving!

Pika may be new on the scene, but it's getting better quickly! If you think it could use some tweaks or features, feel free to check out its GitHub page. You can share suggestions or even jump in and help improve it yourself!

If you're looking for an awesome color picker that's easy on both your wallet and your workflow, give Pika a try today!