Color blind don’t really mean that the person can’t see colors with their world only in black and white. As I am born with color blind, there are many times when I can’t determine the name of the color accurately. Hence I researched how can I tell the name of the color when I see one on the computer. All I need is a color picking tool which is able to give me the hex code of the color and then look up the name from Name That Color website. Thankfully the website is still there but most of the time I find that it gives me very detailed color name such as Glacier, Trout, Bunker, Bluemine and etc, when all I need is a general name such as light blue, dark blue…
I found a free tool called Colorblind Assistant that instantly picks the color from the mouse pointer, providing me with a written name of the color, as well as other useful data such as RGB values and bar graphs, brightness and saturation. What I like about this tool is it gives a general color name.
Colorblind Assistant runs on top of all Windows and has a small zoom pane to allow you to accurately point to the color that you want using the mouse cursor. The name of the color will be displayed instantly together with the numbers RGB numbers and hex code.
Would be great if there is a hotkey just like most color picker tool that allows you to capture the details or temporarily freezing/locking the program from updating. Colorblind Assistant takes up only 512K of memory usage which is less than 1MB. Colorblind Assistant is compatible with all Windows operating systems although it is recommended to use it on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
With Colorblind Assistant, I won’t go around telling people weird color names anymore…