obumbratta.com color picker

last updated: Jan 07, 2026

https://obumbratta.com/colour

I often need custom colours for the visuals I make, but the workflow with existing tools was a little more convoluted than I'd like. Lots of pasting from one tool to another, reformatting, removing quotes, etc.

Gregor Aisch's Palette Helper was a revelation to me when it was released. The man is a prodigy. I've used it for years, but it lacked some features I often found myself needing, and it crashed when I put too many colours in the input.

https://gka.github.io/palettes

So I took time over the holidays to make my own tool (mainly with libraries that Gregor coded). While maybe only 5 of you will ever use this, I thought better to share it than keep it to myself. Knowing someone else might use it forced me to make it better for myself. Let's take a tour...

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