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Hot Scary Summer is a big one. Color history lands as the headline feature, giving you a scrolling drawer of your last 20 foreground/background pairs — tap any chip to restore both colors instantly. Alongside that, there's a new Help view, a greatly expanded pika:// URL scheme, a fix for color accuracy drift, and a pile of interface polish throughout.
As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.
New features
- Color history — A horizontally-scrolling drawer shows your last 20 color pairs. Toggle it with the clock button in the toolbar or
Cmd+Y. Tap a chip to restore both colors; right-click for options to apply foreground or background individually, swap and apply, remove, or clear all. The active chip highlights when your live eyedroppers match a history entry, and state persists across launches - Help view — A new Help window (accessible from the menu) documents all keyboard shortcuts, copy formats, and URL triggers in one place
- Expanded URL scheme — 12 new
pika://triggers for setting colors (pika://set/foreground/<hex>), controlling the history drawer, opening windows, resizing, and forcing light/dark/system appearance - Spotlight search keywords — Pika now surfaces in Spotlight for searches like "Color Picker", "Color Contrast", and "WCAG" (thanks @alexkaessner!)
Updates and bug fixes
- Fixed color accuracy — Colors are now stored in sRGB instead of the display's ICC profile color space, eliminating the 1–3 value drift per channel that could occur when picking colors
- OKLCH and LAB formatting — Trailing zeros are now stripped from values (e.g.
0.5000→0.5,0.0000→0) - Status bar context menu — Rebuilt with all keyboard shortcuts: Pick, Copy, System picker, Swap, Preferences, and Quit
- Undo/redo for history — Full undo/redo support with ID-based history tracking, so picking and undoing doesn't create duplicate entries
- macOS 26 compatibility — Fixed splash window titlebar transparency on macOS 26
- Chinese localization — History strings are now fully localized in Chinese