Screen color sampling
The exact pixel.
Already formatted.
A live loupe follows your pointer, makes individual pixels legible, and turns the one you click into a reusable color clip.
- Start with
- ⌘ ⇧ C
- Leaves behind
- Color clip
- Invoke
- Sample
- Color clip
Aim once.
Keep every notation.
The picker is deliberately one continuous gesture. Refinement happens before the click; conversion stays available afterward.
Call the loupe
Use the global shortcut from any application. Pastry opens a borderless sampling overlay at the pointer instead of asking you to capture a screenshot first.
Refine the target
Scroll to magnify the pixels under the cursor. Hold Command while scrolling to resize the loupe, then use the arrow keys to preview another notation.
Click once
The sampled value lands in local history as a color clip. Hex, RGB, HSL, and HSB remain alternate views of the same color.
One useful result,
already in history.
Color clip
- Entry point
- Global shortcut
- Refinement
- Zoom and loupe size
- Formats
- HEX · RGB · HSL · HSB
- Destination
- Searchable local history
The boundary
A sample, not a screenshot.
Pastry reads the pixel under the pointer and keeps the resulting color value. It does not need to create or retain a screenshot for the sample to remain useful.
Matching a UI color that is not in the source file
Moving a design token into code without opening another utility
Keeping frequently reused colors beside the work they came from
Stop re-copying
what you already copied.
It takes about ninety seconds to install and one afternoon to stop being able to work without it.
v0.12.6 · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel · 7-day trial
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