Material Design for Mac

About the Material Design color utility

Material Design Colour Picker is a complimentary macOS utility built to streamline how designers and developers choose and manage color schemes. Its user interface follows Material Design cues, making it straightforward to grab colors from anywhere on your screen or enter precise color values manually.

Core capabilities

• Instant on-screen color sampling for quick selection
• Manual entry of exact color values for precise work
• Tools to store and manage palettes for different projects
• A compact, low-overhead design that keeps the app responsive on Mac systems

Accepted color formats

• HEX (hexadecimal) codes
• RGB values (red, green, blue)
• HSL and other common web color representations (where supported)

Organizing and reusing palettes

You can build and save custom color sets tailored to individual projects, which helps keep a consistent look across designs and speeds up repetitive tasks. The palette management tools let you group, rename, and recall collections as needed.

Performance and compatibility

The application is intentionally lightweight so it won’t tax system resources, ensuring smooth operation on most Mac computers. Its straightforward feature set focuses on the essentials designers and developers use most often.

Suggested free alternative

Top free alternative: dupeGuru Picture Edition — a no-cost utility that some users consider when looking for complementary tools related to visual workflows.