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Month: November 2017

Little known Mac apps #1: Digital Color Meter

You’ll find this in Applications > Utilities.

It’s a quick/convenient way to get colors from webpages/PDFs etc. (albeit in RGB format) without needing a browser plugin.

Author William TurrellPosted on November 10, 2017November 10, 2017Categories BlogTags apple, browsers, colour, css, html

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