Pick from Screen
Point at any colour on your screen — a web page, a photo, a document in any application — and see the nearest ChromaSpot colours.
Then click the colour. Esc cancels.
from macOS Digital Color Meter in Display in L*a*b* (⇧⌘C copies the values): the display’s own profile and an aperture, no browser in between.
Prototype: a screenshot you then click on — an aperture of
pixels, and the frame’s own values, not the browser’s sRGB.
Or a system screenshot (⌘⇧4 on macOS): paste it here (⌘V), drop it on this box, or
.
then click this patch
— not checked yet: picks are treated as sRGB.
A screen colour is what your display shows, not a measurement; for a physical sample, use an instrument on Match Sample. The browser hands over one pixel as an 8-bit sRGB value, so a pick carries a rounding error of up to about 0.4 ΔE00, and a colour beyond sRGB is clipped to its edge. Have a Lab value from another tool? The Library Browser takes it on its LAB tab.
ΔE00, CIELAB D50/2°, against the library in the same condition. Library colours are ink on their reference paper; a reading on another paper includes that paper.
Earlier readings