ColorCache Features

ColorCache is a powerful yet easy to use color tool for designers and website developers. It incorporates a color picker, color scheme generator, palette management system and a selection of preview tools. Despite it's power, ColorCache has been designed to be unobtrusive - it sits quietly in the system tray and can be called upon when needed with a simple mouse click or key press.

Color Picker

Use the built in color picker to select colors from web pages, photos or anywhere on your computer screen (or screens, if you use a multi-monitor setup). The color picker tool has a built-in magnifier, and can be invoked with a single key press - you don't even need to have ColorCache on-screen to use the dropper.

Each newly captured color is stored in a palette, and optionally, can be automatically copied to the Windows clipboard in a format of your choosing, ready to be pasted into other programs. If none of the supplied color formats are suitable, you can easily define your own.

Color Dropper Tool

Working with Palettes

Colors can be organized into palettes, and further sorted into palette collections. You can save your palettes in xml format, and export in a variety of formats including Photoshop (.ACT, .ACO), MS PAL (.PAL), Illustrator (.AI), Freehand (.ACF) and CSS.

There are a number of ways in which you can populate your palette with colors. Select colors with the built-in color picker tool, use the Windows color selector dialog to find the colors you want, type in the color specification, or generate and import whole color schemes using the palette builder tool. In addition, you can import palettes in a variety of formats including .pal, .aco and .act. You can also import palette collections generated by other ColorCache users.

You can adjust the hue, saturation or lightness of individual palette colors, or whole groups of colors.

Apply a variety of views to your palettes including auto layout, manual layout and report view. The palette background color can be changed, and the palette contents sorted by color name, hue, saturation or lightness.

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