What is that color on the edge of that system?

Or Maroon, Burgundy or Bordeaux?

Having a GUI (Desktop) based color picker is always handy!

The main page of the Homepage homelab dashboard with services running on it.

Find out how to install one that works and works well.

What Is aColor Picker?

A color picker can come in very handy here.

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This is where an external color picker app can shine.

There is lots of options, things to click and things to explore.

The answer is no.

The Gpick main application interface window

Let’s setup Gpick to remember color codes.

Now that we have this list of colors, we can readily convert these color to other color formats.

Importantly, note that is necessary to double click a hex color value to convert it.

Hexadecimal color codes being displayed in Gpick

If you click it only once, the value will be selected, but not converted!

RGB in our case) are still from the last double-clicked hex color value!

It also allows one to convert color values easily between different formats and much more.

Setting options in Gpick to enable adding hex color codes to the palette and the clipboard

A palette of colors picked in Gpick

The RGB values for a hex based color value (transformed) in Gpick