This charming behind-the-scenes story reveals how Apple’s whimsical crayon color picker was born from one engineer’s creative impulse—and how hiding poetry in the code nearly ended his career.

Microsoft this week will release a new color picker utility for PowerToys, the Windows 95 power-user feature it rebooted as an open-source project for Windows 10 last year. The project behind ...

German designer Fabian Burghardt has created the Swiss Style Color Picker as an online tool to help designers find inspiring color combos. Just load the site, and the Swiss Color Picker will give ...

That's a far cry from Photoshop-type color pickers, which let you grab specific colors but not combine them. Adobe Research has come up with a solution called the "Playful Palette" that gives ...