Colorblind Assistant

[davidn]

It's not very often that MMF is used to make things other than games, which makes it even more special that I feel compelled to point out this wonderful little utility that appeared on the Clickteam forums yesterday. I seem to have been noticing my colourblindness a lot more than I used to recently, and when I have to be certain of something, what I usually have to do is print screen and paste into Paint.NET then use the colour selector, because I can see colours rather better in hex than I can in real life. Colorblind Assistant quickens that process - as you hover around the screen, you get a zoomed in view of the pixels around your cursor, and the RGB values for the one you're over are reported along with the names of the colours (some of which I didn't even know existed). It's a very simple but welcome idea that I'm surprised I didn't think of doing myself.

I suppose it could also be useful for getting the exact HTML colour values for anything on screen even if you have normal vision - but it's actually strange for me to grasp that for most people, the simple question "What colour's this?" is something that doesn't need assistance to answer.

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Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I know that on macs, there's a little app that will do that for your entire screen, not just one program... there might be an equivalent for Windows!

[(Anonymous)]

That program does it for the whole screen :)

[davidn]

It does - maybe I explained it badly, this sits on top of all other windows and reports whatever you're pointing at, no matter what other window it belongs to.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Ohh, shoot! I thought it was a plugin for MMF or something. Never mind then. ;)