I have an idea

[TheMapSmith]

Sweet tool, Mike! I'd love to hear the specific itch you were trying to scratch.

I have a couple of quick thoughts, but I don't think all of them are necessary or relevant or useful depending on your use case. They're just what occurred to me as I use it.

Serious ideas:

• Include the option to type the values into each box
• Custom background colors
• Blending modes between circles
  • AND capture the resulting color. i.e. a black/white circle overlap and the app shows the resulting 50% grey color value
• Label the two columns on the right "current selection" and "previous selection"
• Add color transparency option
  • Capture resulting color
• Write out the palette to a text box for copy/paste
• Color vision deficiency toggle buttons

Nice-to-haves:

• Use that color naming AI tool someone linked a while back to generate names for each color
• Shapes other than circle
• Shape snapping
• SVG export for moving to Illustrator
• not sure the official name, but a "color picker box" where you can click and drag around the hue space
• ability to close the "add color" sidebar
• control color drawing order

[migurski]

Thanks Stephen! It should already be possible to type values into the white boxes, if that's what you mean? Blending mode is super interesting, SVG supports a lot of the basics. Color deficiency is not a thing I've thought about even though I'm weak in R/G, good idea.

[migurski]

The itch I was trying to scratch: I haven't had access to Photoshop in a while, and I missed its color picker with different spaces. I’ve been making do with web tools like David Johnstone’s gradient tool but wanted something that would let me compose a palette spatially. Mostly I'm doing this for simple web projects and choropleths; I tend to start with Solarized or Cindy Brewer’s palettes, but they can get stale too.

[TheMapSmith]

Sweet! This is where I was suggesting to type in values:

RE: Photoshop - have you checked out Affinity? They have a raster and vector program that are definitely worth the one-time cost https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

[migurski]

Ah those values, okay. Affinity looks pretty good. I’ve been using Sketch for vector graphics and layouts which I've mostly enjoyed.