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Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/15/2007 12:03:39   
Does software exist that can find an approximate HEX code for a colour on-screen? Difficult to explain, but I need to recreate the mauvey-type colour in the image here. I can do it by trial and error, but I'm not finding it easy. Any ideas, plz?




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RE: Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/15/2007 12:12:17   
Hi John

I use a colour tester Firefox plugin called colorzilla. That burgundy colour doesn't come out as a single shade (it changes as you move the tester around the graphic) - but #823559 is one of the shades.

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RE: Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/15/2007 17:02:37   
How do you do it, Tailslide? Well done - that's exactly what I needed. You have great knowledge.

By trial & error and sheer luck, I arrived at #7E1648 - it's brighter than #823559 and looks quite good, but #823559 is definitely very close.

That's a great little tool and very sensitive - it gives a reading for each pixel, I suppose, and I know the image doesn't have a uniform colour.

Thanks for your help,

John. :)

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RE: Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/15/2007 18:16:37   
...and then of course there's always the many many colour tools listed on probably the greatest colour tool list on the web :)

Speaking of which, I've found another one to add! :)

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RE: Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/16/2007 0:03:06   

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ORIGINAL: Tailslide

Hi John

(it changes as you move the tester around the graphic) - but #823559 is one of the shades.


That's because the image source was probably a compressed file type such as JPEG resulting in pixel variations. I tried two values in Photoshop yielding 0x83345C and 0x853358 using 3x3 averaging. Values very close to yours.

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RE: Matching just one colour (HEX needed) - 11/16/2007 2:52:56   

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ORIGINAL: JohnLearner

How do you do it, Tailslide? Well done - that's exactly what I needed. You have great knowledge.


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