Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Have you ever looked at your CSS and wished you could get a quick overview of the colors you’re using in it? Now you can.

The latest Corvid Works project is Hextractor, a web-based tool to generate an HTML color palette from your CSS. Paste in your CSS or upload the stylesheet file and you’ll get back an HTML palette showing your colors in hexadecimal, RGB, or named colors when possible. Or all three if you like.

The back-end is written in PHP, with a JavaScript/Prototype front end. I’ve released the PHP class used to convert colors between hexadecimal and named colors under the MIT license. It can be downloaded from Corvid Labs and used freely in your own applications.

Hextractor will work in any modern version of Firefox or Safari, and also IE6 and up.