GUI-style display of hexadecimal colours

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Christopher Mackay

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Sep 19, 2019, 2:42:46 PM9/19/19
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Hi,

As a long-time BBEdit user — since version 3.5, I think, which shipped on floppies, and I haven’t missed any shipping versions! — I mainly use it to edit HTML & CSS (including Sass/SCSS).

Something that’s really inconvenient, though, is having colours listed in hexadecimal, rbg, or rgba formats, and losing track of what colours they represent.

Is there any third-party plug-in that can insert some sort of inline representation, maybe a square in the represented colour, so I can tell what I’m looking at? Anything I’ve come up with involved using a separate app to keep track of them, but the context-switching and manual maintenance kills any productivity gains I might experience.

Chris

Christopher Mackay

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Rich Siegel

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Sep 19, 2019, 2:44:52 PM9/19/19
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On 9/19/19 at 2:40 PM, MacOSXSe...@gmail.com (Christopher Mackay)
wrote:

>Is there any third-party plug-in that can insert some sort of inline
>representation, maybe a square in the represented colour, so I can
>tell what I’m looking at

The Character Inspector palette will show a color swatch if the
selection looks like a color value. Windows => Palettes =>
Character Inspector.

Enjoy,

R.
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Christopher Mackay

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Sep 19, 2019, 2:57:41 PM9/19/19
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How did I never know about this?!?

Thanks, Rich — this is exactly what I was looking for.

Chris

(PS — sorry about the multiple posts; Google Groups doesn’t seem to like Safari…)

Bill Kochman

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Sep 19, 2019, 3:08:31 PM9/19/19
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Very cool feature, Rich, of which I was not aware . . . although I don’t have much use for it because I am forced to always use divs to implement my document's colors due to AMP’s strict HTML requirements. However, in my CSS code in the head section of each document, using this palette does indeed show the actual color when I select something like #0000ff. :)

Kind regards,

Bill Kochman
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Rich Siegel

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Sep 19, 2019, 3:29:11 PM9/19/19
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On 9/20/19 at 3:08 PM, wordwe...@gmail.com (Bill Kochman) wrote:

>Very cool feature, Rich, of which I was not aware . . . although I
>don’t have much use for it because I am forced to always use divs to
>implement my document's colors due to AMP’s strict HTML requirements.
>However, in my CSS code in the head section of each document, using
>this palette does indeed show the actual color when I select something
>like #0000ff. :)
>

The character inspector doesn't care about language or style; if
the selection looks like a color specification, it will show a
swatch irrespective of where it occurs.
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