# Colors

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**Technical case file · Implementation · 2026 · TECH**

> 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.

## Links

- [GitHub](https://github.com/arthurkowskii/Colors)

## Videos

- [Hero](/media/colors/hero.mp4)

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