| Firefox Add-On: ColorZilla |
| Sunday, March 08 2009 |
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Ever come come across a web site with a certain color in its design that you thought was really cool, and would like to know its RGB or HTML color code so you can steal it for your own use? Me too, and before ColorZilla came along I would always revert to inspecting a site’s CSS (using the Web Developer toolbar; more on that in a future post) to find the value, and while that worked, it’s not as easy as it could be. That’s where ColorZilla comes in.
This little dude sits in the bottom-left corner of Firefox’s statusbar waiting patiently, and then when you need him, simply click the eyedropper and move your mouse over the web page that has the color you’re after. ColorZilla outlines the web page’s elements as you move over them and keeps track of the colors in the statusbar. Click the color you want and its value stays in the statusbar for reference; it even tells you the page element that the color was for.
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This is certainly awesome in its simplicity, but ColorZilla is more than just that. It has a built-in color picker complete with different color palettes, has built-in zoom capabilities to get really up-close-and-personal with colors on the page, and even allows you to set the format of the statusbar. To see these additional features right-click the eyedropper in the bottom-left corner and you’re good to go.
ColorZilla is currently at version 2.0.2 and can be downloaded and installed here.
