The Color Picker: Color Lists

The color picker is pretty powerful. It can do lots of cool stuff. (Like the color swatch storer.) We'll be covering a few of those cool features this week. Today's feature is the color lists. Here's how it works.

The color picker has a built in color list viewer. To see the color lists, open the color picker (Cmd-Shift-C in most applications, or, Format>Font>Show Colors.) Now, click on the middle button. This will reveal the color lists area. Once you've done this, click on the drop-down menu labled, "List:". Choose one of the lists that are listed there. I find the Web Safe one pretty handy. Here's how you can use it.

Step 1: Select the pretty color that you want in your webpage.
Step 2: Go to the list viewer and switch to the Web Safe list.
Step 3: Copy the hex code from the list. (It will show you the closest matching one.)

That's it! Tomorrow, I'll explain how to create custom color lists.