Free your colors.
hashColor is a simple macOS, iOS and iPad app for storing and sharing colors for designers and developers. hashColor can extract colors from any text file that contains hexadecimal colors - svg, html, css and more. Color swatches can be imported and exported via drag-and-drop. Create and organize palette files for reference, or simply use it to quickly grab colors from a file.hashColor files are not proprietary: they are simple SVG files that can be opened with design software and code editors. Your colors won’t be locked away in an app or site, or proprietary file. Any file created in hashColor should be viewable on almost any device.
A simple color utility. And a bigger concept.
Design software should make design easy and fun. Unfortunately, major software companies continue to find ways to capitalize on us, our work and data, and often leave us in unfortunate situations.With that in mind, these were several important concepts that were important to me when I set out to code hashColor:
- the files should be readable other software applications - as many as possible - and not require the app itself
- the files should be available outside of the application or any web platform to store and share as needed
While this app only plays a small role in the design process, it filled a gap for me other color apps did not: making it trivial to share or move colors in a project from concept to execution. If you have any suggestions or feature requests, please let me know.
