a good colour picker program?

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i am trying to pick a set of colours for syntax highlighting in vim at the moment.

what i would like is a program that simply shows me a colour wheel, so that i can select a certain shade of (say) blue, and it will tell me the HEX value of this colour.

i can do this in MS Word by going into define custom colour, but this seems like far to much fuss for such a simple job.

an initial hunt at downloads.com isnt getting me very far either.

just wondering if anyone could recormend a small simple free prog for doing this.

thanks
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
colorpad is the best, free, skinnable, color picker around (IMHO)

http://www.entic.net/~vmoya

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use this one... http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Feline.... after you pick a color, are you going to paint it here? GM hopes some Feline magic can freshen the paint can some.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
2 more to check out..........

Vista
http://www.545studios.com/?p=apps&id=31

Switch
http://www.highertendencies.com/

2nd link is down at the moment..........hopefully it's be back soon.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it's be back = it'll be back
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Zoomer is pretty nifty as well:
http://www.hydra-soft.org
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use the one GoodMorphing posted a link to... ColorPic

(btw GM - an update for Humidor will most certainly happen someday)
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Humidor is coming someday to a screen very near ME!!!!!!!!! Thanks! My computer will finally be complete (for an instant)!

here is my first one.... basic, but I was thrilled to have it (only not as thrilled as news of a new Humidor). I liked that it came from so far away...

http://eyedropper.inetia.com/
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ooh, lots of new toys

thanks for the links.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
GoodMorphing - Feline.... after you pick a color, are you going to paint it here? GM hopes some Feline magic can freshen the paint can some.

something like that

currently i am trying to get some complimentry colors for syntax highlighting in vim.

i am also planning on creating a coolplayer skin (seems a good place to start), but i seem to have made 2 tiny technical errors:

a) i think i am developing an internet adiction, which eats up a lot of time

b) in installed DiabloII + expansion pack on my machine!

somehow between these two learning gimp and skinning seems to have gone out the window
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here, feline, this is for your addiction problem. http://www.wackycreations.com/lastpage.html
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So, instead of a color picker... maybe you would rather like to see color charts? I know of some of those, I think I could find them again.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
that would be lovely

as for your link, since it has a "back" link at the bottom of the page, i am still surfing