hyprpicker is a wlroots-compatible Wayland colour picker for Linux.
When launched, it turns the cursor into a magnifying lens so you can click any pixel on screen and print its colour value to standard output. It’s a lightweight utility designed for quick colour selection on Wayland desktops.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports hexadecimal, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK output formats.
- Can automatically copy the selected colour to the clipboard with the autocopy option.
- Offers plain output with the no-fancy option and respects the NO_COLOR environment variable.
- Works well in shell pipelines and scripts by writing the picked colour to standard output.
Website: github.com/hyprwm/hyprpicker
Support:
Developer: Hypr Development
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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