Pika (pronounced pi·kuh, like picker) is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS. Pika makes it easy to quickly find colours onscreen, in the format you need, so you can get on with being a speedy, successful designer.
Download the latest version of the app at:
superhighfives.com/pika
Or you can install it with Homebrew:
brew install --cask pika
Learn more about the motivations behind the project, and the product vision.
As of version 0.0.17
, Pika supports the following keyboard shortcuts:
As of version 0.0.17
, you can trigger Pika using the pika://
URL scheme.
You can also change the format by appending it to the URL when picking or copying. For example, pika://pick/foreground/hex
(or rgb, hsl, hsb).
pika://pick/foreground
pika://pick/background
pika://pick/foreground/hex
(or rgb, hsl, hsb)pika://pick/background/hex
(or rgb, hsl, hsb)pika://copy/foreground
pika://copy/background
pika://copy/foreground/hex
(or rgb, hsl, hsb)pika://copy/background/hex
(or rgb, hsl, hsb)pika://copy/text
pika://copy/json
pika://format/hex
pika://format/rgb
pika://format/hsb
pika://format/hsl
pika://undo
pika://redo
pika://swap
Make sure you have mint installed, and bootstrap the toolchain dependencies:
brew install mint
mint bootstrap
Open Pika.xcodeproj
and to run the project. Sparkle requires that you have a team and signing profile set for the project, or it will crash with a dyld / signal SIGABRT error.
If you run into any problems, please detail them in an issue.
Any and all contributions are welcomed. Check for open issues, look through the project roadmap, and submit a PR.
And a huge thank you to Stormnoid for the incredible 2D vector field visualisation on Shadertoy.