Comments on: Essential Web Development Software: DigitalColor Meter

By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:13:32 +0000

Hmm, that’s interesting… On my mac, running Tiger, Cmd Shift C copies a value like “#B2693A” to the clipboard. A click + drag from the swatch area copies a value like #B2693A (in other words, no quotes) to the clipboard.

Given a value like “AA AA AA”, I’d do this: copy it to the clipboard, then run a shell script that filters it and pipes it back to the keyboard, then simply paste it where you want it. Here’s an example script:

#!/bin/sh
pbpaste | sed s/\”//g | sed s/\ //g | pbcopy

…you need to save that as a shell script and make it executable, and you need to invoke it somehow; I’d suggest a keystroke utility for that, Quicksilver or something like that.

And if the value was “#aaaaaa” like the ones I see, use a script that does this instead:

#!/bin/sh
pbpaste | sed s/\”//g | sed s/#//g | pbcopy

…hope that helps. I’m going to set this up on my mac too as typing in those hex values is annoying!

By: Erik Goens

Erik Goens — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:19:23 +0000

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to remove the quotes and extra spaces inserted into the copied color values? I would love to use the rgb value and paste it directly into an Adobe app, but the copied string values are too long. ex: (“AA AA AA”).

What I would like is a simple (AAAAAA). No extra spaces or quotes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

By: Miranda V

Miranda V — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:23:30 +0000

well written post…thank you