Hexcolor

A simple commandline color picker for Xorg using bash.

How to use

When running hexcolor the cursor will change. After clicking a place on the screen the hex color code for the pixel where the mouse was will be returned.

Using this script will look something like this:

wouter@wouter-pc:~/Sources/hexcolor$ ./hexcolor 
#2DC450

The resulting color code can be used for web development or other purposes.

Dependencies

The following dependencies will need to be installed to be able to use this script:

• Image Magick
• X11 Utils
• xdotool

In Ubuntu/Debian they can be installed with the following command:

apt-get install imagemagick x11-utils xdotool