HTML Color Pickers help you in setting background and text colors in your web pages by providing some sort of graphical interface from which you pick a color or set of colors you like, and it provides the code. These are built into most modern HTML Editors, but for those of us who prefer to use a simple text editor, these can come in extremely handy to make sure that your text is attractive and visible on the page you're working on.

Advanced Color Selector

• Version Number: 1.15
• Revision Date: February 16,1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 1,953,280
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $25.00
• Home Page: http://www.jafar.com/products/
• Description: A great color select tool that lets you select color values via RGB sliders. Also includes a web palette where you can select web optimized colors. It also has a handy feature which writes the HTML to your clipboard or as an HTML file
  

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Agile ColorWeb

• Version Number: 1.01
• Revision Date: October 6, 1997
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,272,942
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $10.00
• Home Page: http://www.compware.demon.co.uk/colorweb
• Description: Several ways to pick colors that will be safe for any browser running on Windows or Macintosh computers. Copies HEX code to clipboard for you. Works with any HTML editor.
  

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Cairns Color Chooser

• Version Number: 1.0
• Revision Date: July 4, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,544,836
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/6312
• Description: Cairns Color picker is a handy color picker that stays on top of other programs for easy access. Click and paste the color you choose into your HTML document for the colors you want.
  

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Color Converter

• Version Number: 3.0
• Revision Date: October 6, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 538,484
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $4.95
• Evaluation Period: 10 Uses
• Home Page: http://members.aol.com/GWWWiz/wiz.htm
• Description: Quick and easy utility to pick your color and convert it to RGB, Hex, or CMYK. Includes a utility to take a screen capture and pick colors from it, giving you exceptional flexibility in picking just the right color.
  

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Color Monger

• Version Number: 0.9b
• Revision Date: July 12, 1997
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 1,918,968
• License: Freeware
• Description: Color Monger is a color picker that is great for special effects. It provides options for fonts, bold, italics, underline, strikeout and font size. Color Monger has several different ways to color the text and several other options which are very easy to use. Put in the text, select the colors and options and hit copy text and the text is waiting for you on your windows clipboard.
  

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ColorShade

• Version Number: 2.0.1
• Revision Date: June 19, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 3,254,272
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $7.00
• Evaluation Period: 15 Days
• Home Page: http://welcome.to/shwares
• Description: ColorShade is a small utility to make it easier for web site designers to pick the right body colors for their page. ColorShade allows you not only to pick the right colors, but also save an HTML header file so that you can always use that file for your pages. Other advanced features include applying the body settings to an existing HTML file.
  

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Color Value Converter

• Version Number: 1.1
• Revision Date: April 1, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,402.322
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $5.00
• Home Page: http://www.neptunetech.com
• Description: A little program that converts RGB to Hex code or Hex code to RGB, and then copies to the clipboard.
  

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Crayon

• Version Number: 2.1
• Revision Date: July 3, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 67,573
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $5.00
• Home Page: http://www.purplenet.net/~alice/crayon/index.html
• Description: Converts color to HEX Code and copy/pastes it into your HTML document. Very simple to use and easy to understand.
  

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Danere ColorMaker

• Version Number: 3.1
• Revision Date: July 30, 1997
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 515,734
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $14.95
• Home Page: http://www.OntheNet.com.au/~sct_tech/colormak.htm
• Additional Software Required: VB Runtime 4.00
• Description: A utility that allows a user to select colors, previewed over a specified homepage. A whole web site can be updated with new colors with one click. It also offers unique gradient color sliders, presaved schemes, color or grayscale modes, a HEX pad and more.
  

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Dazzle

• Version Number: 1.5
• Revision Date: September 10, 1997
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,776,227
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $10.00
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/4179/
• Description: Takes out the guesswork of selecting just the right shade, by letting you pick out of 16 million colors and generating the #RRGGBB code for it. A browser-safe palette is also available. Additional features include gradients, body tag construction, load/save colors, always on top etc.
  

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Easy Hyber Color

• Version Number: 1.2
• Revision Date: September 19, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 277,697
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $15.00
• Evaluation Period: 10 Days
• Home Page: http://w1.1863.telia.com/~u186300058/
• Description: A body tag color- and background picker that can load and save colors, add background images, and paste in RGB values, copy the body tag to clipboard.
  

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EOHex

• Version Number: 1.6
• Revision Date: November 19, 1997
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,488,000
• License: Freeware (Donationware)
• Home Page: http://vtg.org/bsmith/eohex.shtml
• Description: Select colors for background, text, link, visited link, and active link colors, by using RGB slide bars, enter RGB value, enter HEX values, the standard Windows Color Dialog Box or even select colors from your background image! You can also open and tile a JPEG or GIF file in the mini-browser window to see how your chosen link colors will look over it.
  

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Eye Dropper

• Version Number: 1.1
• Revision Date: May 20, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 123,276
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.inetia.com/eyedroppereng.asp
• Description: Eye Dropper is a very easy to use HEX utility that resides in your system tray. When the application is activated, a magnified window is attached to your mouse pointer to show you the exact location and color your pointer is on. Within the same window it displays the HEX color values of whatever you happen to be pointing at.
  

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Font and Body Tag Wizard

• Version Number: 1.0 12/30 Release
• Revision Date: December 30, 1997
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 267,383
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.cob.asu.edu/jeff/html/fbw.html
• Description: A nifty little background picker that also has font tag support. Very well done, allows you to specify multiple font names and alternates, and shows you a realtime preview of both color and font appearance. Supports background images as well as colors.
  

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HTML Paint Brush

• Version Number: 1.6
• Revision Date: November 9, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 190,082
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://members.xoom.com/mattp/htmlpb.htm
• Description: HTML PaintBrush is a very useful utility that allows you to view and select different colors for your links, background color, text color, and automatically generates the HTML for you so that you can copy and paste it! PaintBrush also includes a great quick reference of HTML color codes, and the ability to save and load color schemes.
  

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Korax ColourDrop

• Version Number: 1.0.9
• Revision Date: December 15, 1998
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,861,650
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.korax.net/software/colourdrop.shtml
• Description: Korax ColourDrop is a simple HTML color picker program loaded with features. Displays the hex value for a variety of color sets, including greyscale, browser-safe colors, the "named" colors and more. Perhaps it's strongest feature is the actual picker which displays the color information for any pixel on the screen.
  

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RaDaSoft HexColor Professional

• Version Number: 1.0
• Revision Date: September 24, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 1,269,185
• License: Shareware
• Cost: $15.00 (19$ with credit-card)
• Home Page: http://radasoft.freeservers.com/hexcolor/
• Description: RaDaSoft HexColor Professional is a very handy colorpicker. You use it like a toolbar over your ordinary editor so you always have it handy. You can pick BGCOLOR and TEXT and copy these to clipboard with an easy click. Now includes Netscape colornames, colorschemes, websafe palette, Save as HTML and colorpicking from pictures or the screen.
  

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roColour

• Version Number: 2.0
• Revision Date: March 10, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 2,111,158
• License: Commercial Demo
• Cost: $10.00
• Home Page: http://www.rodesign.com/rocolour/index.htm
• Description: Nifty little sharp looking color picker application that drag-and-drop pastes into your documents.
  

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RGBHEX

• Version Number: 1.4
• Revision Date: January 19, 1999
• File Type: zip
• Byte Size: 1,569,341
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/~wheresmysocks/rgbhex/
• Description: RGBHEX is a program that converts between 0-255 RGB color settings and their hexadecimal equivalents. Also allows you to choose colors from the Windows standard colors dialogue box, and converts colors to their closest "web safe" colors. Runs from the system tray, with an option to have it set on top of other programs for easy use.
  

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Spectroscope

• Version Number: 1.45
• Revision Date: May 2, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 209,408
• License: Freeware
• Home Page: http://www.headoffice.co.uk
• Description: A color selection utility that is easy to use and offers you a user friendly interface with "point and click" ease. Automatically writes the HTML for your BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, ALINK, and VLINK, HTML tags.
  

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WebPalette

• Version Number: 1.10
• Revision Date: October 5, 1998
• File Type: exe
• Byte Size: 507,219
• License: Shareware (nag screen enabled)
• Cost: $15.00 Australian, $10.00 USD
• Home Page: http://www.powerup.com.au/~marver/
• Description: Handy utility to acquire Hex color code for web page design that starts in the system tray. Small executable, no real bugs, and simple to use and understand. Very basic.
  

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