Geek Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/digital-color-meter-hexadecimal.jpg" alt="Get Hexadecimal Values in Digital Color Meter for OS X Lion" title="digital-color-meter-hexadecimal" width="615" height="266" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24570" /></p> <p>A few months ago I wrote about an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/12/digital-color-meter-picker-replacement-for-mac-os-x-lion">alternative to DigitalColor Meter</a> for OS X Lion, with my main complaint being that the color picker tool removed the ability to get hexadecimal color codes. It turns out I was wrong, you <em>can</em> get hex color codes from Lion’s Digital Color Meter app, as pointed out <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/12/digital-color-meter-picker-replacement-for-mac-os-x-lion/#comment-292291">in the comments</a> by one of our helpful readers, Apple just changed where you select this option, placing it into a sub-menu rather than the main pull-down. Here’s how to set it:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Set DigitalColor Meter to Display Values as Hexadecimal in OS X Lion</h2> <p>This is for DigitalColor Meter in Mac OS X 10.7 only, you can also set to show color values as decimal, hexadecimal, and percentage:</p> <ul> <li>Launch DigitalColor Meter (/Applications/Utilities/)</li> <li>Pull down the “View” menu and go to “Display Values”</li> <li>Select “Hexadecimal”</li> </ul> <p>If you use the color meter tool often, you can set the three color value options as keyboard shortcuts to make this even faster to switch between. This tip comes directly <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/12/digital-color-meter-picker-replacement-for-mac-os-x-lion/#comment-292291">from Eric</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>To make it even easier – go to System Prefs->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts. In the left column pick ”Application shortcuts”. Add 3 new ones like: as Decimal ⌘1 as Hexadecimal ⌘2 as Percentage ⌘3</p></blockquote> <p>No need to download any additional apps after all. Thanks for pointing this out Eric!</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7903DV7_s6HXKSiLICPpALPsNBM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7903DV7_s6HXKSiLICPpALPsNBM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7903DV7_s6HXKSiLICPpALPsNBM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7903DV7_s6HXKSiLICPpALPsNBM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=ZNGEiuTPA1g:zd5k3dkNZ8I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/ZNGEiuTPA1g" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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