Web app: Color Tool

⚠ Unfinished! Color Tool is a fast, minimal color palette bookmarking system. It's intended to do just one extremely specific thing lightning fast, while also looking nice.

Inspiration for my Color Tool came from existing tools and products like Adobe Color and frustration with the overcomplication I felt in most existing options. The idea was to remove everything but a field of color swatches and to make the app load instantly by saving the actual color data directly in the urls.

This “saving” method won’t work in every situation, but when combined with ubiquitous technology like browser bookmark syncing and qr codes is surprisingly versatile. It also allows the app to be just a few kilobytes of actual code, making it load nearly instantly on most internet connections.

I recently rebuilt Color Tool to make it work better on touchscreens and I think it's a great example of smart and simple CSS which allows one interface to work seamlessly across a wide range of input methods and window sizes.

Play with Color Tool

Ultimately, it does need a few more basic features, though. I plan to add the ability to move and delete colors. Additionally, older versions of the tool had the ability to edit the actual RGB values directly (the current version only allows manually typing hex codes or manipulating sliders) - I want to add that back.