If you are a web designer or work in digital colors on the Internet this design tool will be a big help to you when attempting to match one color to it's exact equivalent in a different format. You could say a green is a green but there are so many shadings and nuances of green, of course, that picking one in a different format by eye is not the easiest thing in the word - especially if your client has based their whole advertising campaign around that color and you've come up with what looks like the right shade. Without using a color design tool like Color Hexa your incorrect color is going to stand out like a sore thumb.
ColorHexa is a free color tool providing detailed information about just about any color. Just type any color values in the search field and ColorHexa will offer a detailed description and automatically convert it to its equivalent value in Hexadecimal, Binary, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, CIE-Lab, Hunter-Lab, CIE-Luv, CIE-LCH, XYZ and xyY. Alternatively you can use the eye dropper tool and ColorHexa will generate matching color schemes such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic colors. ColorHexa also offers the ability to merge 2 (or more) colors together by simply separating them with a "+" in your query. Now you will be able to know which colors best suit the ones you chose. The level of detail and accuracy is astonishing. Just click a color swatch to see your color separated into it's various components swell as viewing equivalent values from other Internet color palettes.
Even though many of us will pick a color by eye or click the choose a color eyedropper when designing there are times when an exact match is essential. I mean, there is no other equivalent for British Racing Green is there. Get the color wrong and, not only will it stand out like a beacon against there original color but you will probably lose the contract. Color Hexa is a very useful free tool to have in your arsenal. It's easy to use and navigate and the detail it throws up could very well save you a top client.
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