Stop guessing hex,
Just Dab it.

It's the fastest way to grab a color you like. Dab sits in your menu bar, you click any pixel on your screen, and the hex is copied before you blink. Then paste it in 21 formats, build a whole palette around it, and check how it reads before you ship it.

Download on the Mac App Store See how it works →

Go on, grab a color. The whole page wears it.

[yes, it spells it]now wearing #F00DAB
your cursor is a loupe → click any swatch and the site wears ittap a swatch, the site wears it

One little dot,
your whole color kit.

Everything you need for color, one click away in your menu bar. And it never once asks to record your screen.

21.

formats,
one tap each

HEX, RGB, OKLCH, Tailwind, a SwiftUI Color, and 16 more. Just grab the one you'll actually paste, bare or wrapped for code.

HEXRGBHSLHSBCMYKOKLCHOKLABCIELABDisplay P3TailwindSwiftUINSColorUIColorCSS rgbAndroid argbFlutterUnityHEX + AlphaRGBAHSLANamed
AA
4.7 : 1

Contrast,
always checked

WCAG and APCA on every single pick.

Pink

Names in
plain English

It won't say "Razzmatazz." It'll just say pink.

Made for every
kind of eye

See how your palette lands for everyone, with colors that clash flagged.

Normal vision
Deuteranopia

Right there in
your menu bar

A little dot, tinted to the last color you picked.

Synced across
your Macs

Pick on one Mac, find it on all of them.

Palettes from
any image

Drop in a photo and lift its best colors in a single tap.

Every pick,
kept by the day

History holds everything you have grabbed, grouped by day and searchable by hex or by name. Pin the ones worth keeping.

Speaks twelve
languages

The whole interface is translated, with a picker in Settings to switch whenever you like.

English简体中文繁體中文日本語한국어DeutschFrançaisEspañolItalianoPortuguêsNederlandsРусский

One color is a start.
Now build the whole set.

Press Command G and Palette Studio opens: full bleed columns, the space bar to generate, and a lock on any color you want to keep. Pick a harmony and a mood, then nudge one column or the whole palette at once.

#6C2BD9 Electric Violet
#F91880 Neon Pink
#FF6B35 Ember Orange
#FFD23F Sunbeam Yellow
#06D6A0 Mint Green
Check it before you ship itA full WCAG and APCA contrast matrix for every pair in the palette, plus a color vision preview.
Take it anywhereSave it, export the palette or a gradient, or paint it onto a sample interface with Visualize.
Tints, shades, alternativesOpen the matrix for every step of a color, or browse alternatives when one is nearly right.
Explore Palettes

317 palettes, and
not one of them online.

The whole library ships inside the app, so it works on a plane. Search by name, by tag, or paste a hex and Dab finds the palettes built around it. Ten collections, four sorts, and a star on the ones you keep.

317 curated palettes, bundled with the app

On-device assistant

Ask for a palette
in plain English.

Describe the feeling you are after and Dab works out the tags and the mood right on your Mac, then draws real palettes from its own library. It never invents a color, and nothing you type leaves the machine.

Runs through Apple Intelligence on macOS 26 and later on supported Macs. Everywhere else a keyword search takes over, so it still answers offline. There is no cloud model, and Dab ships with no network access at all.

Go on, grab a color
right off this page.

Your cursor is already a loupe. Drag it over the art below, or the swatches up top, and click. The hex copies itself and drops straight into your palette. Told you it was quick.

hover the art, then click
#FF6B5C CARDINAL RED
RGB255 107 92
HSL7 100% 68%

See how everyone
sees your colors.

Preview any palette through deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia, and Dab flags the colors that blur into each other. And if you're colorblind yourself, it names the real color and says it out loud. "Looks green, actually red."

Normal visioneveryone
reference
Deuteranopia6% of men
⚠ 4 blur

Pick a pixel,
read it every way.

This is the whole app in one move. Click the dot, dab any pixel on your screen, and its hex is on your clipboard right away. A little spec sheet pops up with it too: the color in auto contrast, its name, and up to six formats you pick yourself. Choose them below and watch everything update live.

Your formats 3 of 6

Choose any 3 to 6. They set the HUD rows and every card you save.

#FF6B5C CARDINAL REDinfo
Click a row to copy Save
RGBrgb(255, 107, 92)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 58%, 64%, 0%)
HSLhsl(6, 100%, 68%)
On the HUD
Click a rowcopies that exact format. Your default format is already on the clipboard the instant you pick, no click needed.
infoopens the contrast read: the WCAG ratio against white, its AA grade, and the APCA Lc.
Saverenders the color as a card, then writes the file straight to disk.
Save as a card
Posterthe name set huge, Pantone style, with a wordmark up the spine.
Tokenthe swatch over a clean white spec panel.
Specfull bleed color, the values pinned in the corner.

Each card is a 4:5 portrait, rendered at 3×. Save it as a 3600 × 4500 PNG or an editable SVG.

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