Sip

Sip is the refreshingly simple color picker for developers that instantly samples and encodes any color on your screen. Just one quick click to savor the flavor and you're set! See what's on special with Sip below.

Order Sip just the way you like it - customize app and color options with a fine selection of user preferences.

• Select the color format you want to use. Choose from: CSS Hex, CSS3 HSL, CSS3 RGB, Calibrated NSColor for HSB, Calibrated NSColor for RGB, Device NSColor for CMYK, Device NSColor for HSB, Device NSColor for RGB, UIColor HSB, UIColorRGB, CGColor Generic RGB, and CGColor Generic CMYK.
• Set the number of colors to keep in your history.
• Toggle "All Caps" CSS color formatting.
• Toggle prefix and suffixes on floating formats.
• Constantly guzzling colors? Set Sip to launch at log-in.

Note: This application contains in-app and/or external module purchases.

Note: Sip 2.0 is a paid update. If you're an existing Customer, we have a discount pricing available, also If you purchased Sip after 1 December 2018 you can update it for free.

We also changed our payment method. Please read this before updating.

New Features:

Smart formats

• Smart formats detects which software you are using and changes the color format accordingly.
  This means you don’t need to be constantly guessing what’s the appropriate color format to be used in a software, or constantly changing color formats when working in 2 or more softwares.

Check and fix Color Contrast

• Check Color Contrast allows you to check color contrast ratios and check its accessibility. You can also fix it directly in Sip, manually or automatically and create a palette with those 2 colors.

Favorite Palettes

• You now have the ability to favorite Palettes, which can then be accessed by clicking on the favorite icon on the left in the bottom bar of the interface.

Improvements:

Menu Bar interface

• New Palette, New custom formats, and contrast checker now organized in the same central menu icon on the toolbar.

Palettes

• Colors are now organized by palettes in the main view.
• Enter in a palette to see colors of that palette in detail.
• Add a palette to the favorites section, by selecting the heart icon on the top right menu on each palette.
• Duplicate a palette holding the Option Key while dragging the palette vertically.
• Right-click on any Palette to Rename, Edit, Delete, Share, Lock and Send to Color Dock and paste a color from clipboard.

Colors

• Duplicate a color to another palette by pressing Option key while dragging the color
• Right-click on any color to quickly Rename, Edit, Delete or Share it.

Bottom Bar

• Bottom Bar is now fixed at the very bottom of the menu bar regardless of the number of palettes you have.
• Added a Favorite section on the left.

Editor

• Editor is now part of the menu bar interface.
• You can Edit palettes, color names and create new palettes and colors from existing ones.
• Edit a color through the universal color picker, though the hexadecimal input field, or through the RGBA (RED, Green, Blue, Alpha) individual fields.

Color Dock

• Move the color dock to any area of your screen by dragging it. When you release it the color dock will snap to the nearest edge of your screen.
• Drag and drop the color dock to the center of your screen to disable it. To show it again, go to Preferences > General > Show color dock.

Picker

• Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move from pixel to pixel, or at 10-pixel intervals, by pressing shift using the arrow keys
• Improved color picker interface.
• When changing the size of the picker, the behavior is now smoother.
• For actions like picking multiple colors, picking and creating palette with the picked colors and sending colors directly to a software, an icon illustrating the action is displayed in the picker.