Colors
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A free Windows color picker that helps colorblind people identify colors on screen — noise-rejecting sampling and a human color name.
Facts
- Roles: Implementation
- Year: 2026
- Version control: Git
- Language: C# / Avalonia
- Host app: Windows / macOS
- Status: Completed
Case file
- Workflow result: One click on a color copies its hex code alongside its human name to the clipboard.
- Context: Desktop application with installer, system hotkey, and tray presence, built in C#.
Purpose
This app was made to help me analyze colors on my screen as a colorblind person, whether for work or personal projects.
What the app does
Colors is an installable Windows color picker, opened with the Win + Ctrl + Alt + C hotkey. One click copies a hex code together with the color's name to the clipboard. The app does not trust a single pixel: it samples an 11x11 area around the cursor, rejects the furthest 20 percent of pixels as noise, then averages the rest before naming the color.
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