Shortcut | Description |
Ctrl+C | Copies the color under the cursor to the Clipboard. You can then paste the clipboard color into any text or HTML editor. |
Ctrl+V | Copies the clipboard color to the Palette. |
Ctrl+B | Copies the color under the cursor to the Mixer tab as the background color. |
Ctrl+T | Copies the color under the cursor to the Mixer tab as the text color. |
+ | Zooms in. |
- | Zooms out. |
Ctrl+3 | Toggles Sample 3x3 option. |
Ctrl+I | Toggles Invert color option. |
Ctrl+P | Toggles Auto copy to Palette option. |
Ctrl+U | Toggles Uppercase hex option. |
Ctrl+W | Toggles Snap to web-safe color option. |
The colors are on the Safe Colors tab are normally sorted by hue, but you can also sort them by RGB value via an option on the Options tab.
To see what the web-safe colors look like in your browser, click here.
Note that the visualization of RAL colors on the screen is dependent on the characteristics of the monitor and the graphics card. For accurate color matching, you should use the appropriate RAL color sheet or fan deck.
To see what the RAL colors look like in your browser, click here.
When you paste a color into the Palette, you can optionally
assign a description to the color. This description will
appear when you hover the cursor over the color swatch, to remind
you of what the color is used for.
To remove a color from the Palette, click on the color swatch
you want to remove, and press Delete. Deleting replaces the
color with white, which means "no color".
To copy colors into the Mixer tab, use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+B (to copy a background color) and Ctrl+T (to copy a text color).
If you only want to work with the background color, you can select the Auto text color option, which will automatically adjust the text color so that the sample text is always visible.
To see how the colors look in your browser, click on the Preview button.
The buttons Copy to Clipboard and Copy to Palette allow you to export the mixer colors via Clipboard and save them to the Palette. Which color is exported or saved depends on the setting of the Selection.
Option | Description |
Clipboard Format | Specifies the format used to place colors on the Clipboard. |
Sort Safe Colors | Specifies whether the colors on the Safe Colors tab will be arranged by hue or by RGB value. |
Zoom | Specifies the zoom factor to use for the Zoom tab. |
Auto copy to Palette | If selected, specifies that Ctrl+C will copy the color to the Palette as well as to the Clipboard, |
Prompt for Palette description | If selected, you will be prompted for a description when a color is placed on the Palette. |
Uppercase hex | If selected, hex color values will be copied to the Clipboard using upper-case letters; otherwise, lower-case letters will be used. |
Snap to web-safe color | If selected, the color under the cursor will be converted to the nearest web-safe color, and "FILTERED" will be displayed in the caption bar. |
Sample 3x3 | If selected, the color under the cursor will be sampled using a 3x3 pixel grid, and "FILTERED" will be displayed in the caption bar. |
Invert color | If selected, the color under the cursor will be inverted by taking its one's complement, and "FILTERED" will be displayed in the caption bar. |
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