ColorMania for Windows

Product snapshot

ColorMania is a free color-selection utility aimed at graphic artists and web designers who need quick, precise access to an extensive palette. It works well alongside popular image editors (for example, Photoshop or GIMP) and is available at no cost for download.

Main capabilities

• Offers a very large range of selectable colors and precise control over their properties.
• Lets you inspect and capture individual pixels with a built-in magnifier to identify exact hues.
• Displays color values in multiple representations so they can be copied directly into design files or code.
• Supports adjustments for hue, brightness and saturation for on-the-fly tweaking.

How it fits into your workflow

Thanks to a robust internal design and broad format compatibility, ColorMania can be used side-by-side with most graphic applications. Designers can pick or sample colors inside the utility and paste the corresponding code into web pages, style sheets, or documents without switching tools.

Color code formats supported

• VB Hex (Microsoft Visual Basic-style hex codes)
• CMYK (print-oriented cyan/magenta/yellow/black)
• CMY (cyan/magenta/yellow)
• CSS (style-sheet friendly color specifications)
• hexadecimal (standard #RRGGBB hex codes)
• HTML (color names and values suitable for web pages)

All formats are shown as text so you can copy paste the exact code into an HTML file or any editor.

Licensing and additional notes

ColorMania is distributed as freeware, so there is no purchase required to install or use it. Its simple interface and format flexibility make it a handy supplement to other design tools rather than a full replacement for a raster editor.