{"id":2674,"date":"2013-07-23T05:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2013-07-23T05:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:56:01","slug":"digital-colour-meter-on-mac-laptop-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/digital-colour-meter-on-mac-laptop-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Colour Meter on Mac Laptop Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital Colour Meter on Mac Laptop Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to Digital Colour Meter application in Mac OS X, which is a tool useful for web development for determining the RGB for a colour of your choosing.<\/p>\n

DigitalColor Meter is a utility for measuring and displaying the colour values of pixels displayed on the screen of a Macintosh laptop computer.<\/p>\n

The utility presents a “window” onto the screen which includes a cursor which by default is 1 \u00d7 1 pixel in size. The colour displayed in that pixel is shown as a colour value which may be represented as decimal or hexadecimal RGB triplets, CIE 1931, CIE 1976 or CIELAB triplets or a Tristimulus triplet.<\/p>\n

The displayed colour could be copied either as a solid colour or as the colour value which represents it, to be used in other applications (for instance an RGB triplet may be used in a colour specification to be used on a World Wide Web page).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s see some simple Digital Colour Meter application usage in Mac OS X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Am sure you can imagine how powerful this functionality is, and what a great tool it can be for practical aspects of web design where you are looking to discover the details of that elusive colour you like.<\/p>\n

Here is a useful link<\/a> for usage purposes.<\/p>\n

So, to use the output of Digital Colour Meter on a Mac laptop see some (there are lots of other approaches also) HTML usage (another great link<\/a> is) below ( where tohex3(185,127,206) is ‘#897FCE’ ):<\/p>\n