Pixie – A Great Way to Add Color to Your Discussion

Ever look at a web page and say: “What a pretty color” and then not be able to describe it to your web designer or printer?  And then later on when they ask you what the page is you either forgot to put into Evernote (I told you!) or even worse, the page doesn’t look like that anymore!

Well, forget all that.  If you have Pixie, you will be all set.  You can download it safely from download.com here (click on “direct download when you get there”) and once you install it you will have a tiny little program that only does one thing.

It tells you the “hex color” of whatever you mouse over.  The hex is the 6 character alphanumeric code that is used to make colors on web pages.  For instance, black is 000000.   And web designers use those numbers to make the colors you see.  And Pixie shows them to you!  That web page? No problem.  Your desktop?  No problem.  The green in the Evernote logo?  It’s: 78C636.  The pink in the little logo in the upper left of this post? FF0CFD.  The color of the orange share button up there (that you should click regardless of what color it is)? FB7756.

That’s all it does.  But from then on instead of being stuck sending emails like this:

“I want it to be bluer than you have it now, but still some green.  I will know it when I see it”

You can say:

“I want it to be 17C3E6.”

And if you want to just mess around with colors, head to colorpicker.com.  Warning, though: it can be addictive!

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