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Magnifier loupe
A live zoom grid with a crosshair follows your cursor, so you can target the exact pixel — even on a busy gradient. Loupe size is adjustable in Settings.
#B388FF · 265°Huewright · macOS menu-bar picker
Point.
Click.
Hex.
Huewright lives in your menu bar. Arm the picker, hover any pixel with the magnifier loupe, click — the color lands on your clipboard in HEX, RGB, HSL, Swift, or CSS.
Loupe armed — move to sample
Every block on this panel is a real, pickable pixel.
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Copy formats
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Colors in pick history
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Network calls
Copy formats
One click. Five alphabets.
The same pixel, fluent in every language your editor speaks. This is exactly what lands on your clipboard.
#B388FF
Set a default in Settings and every pick copies in that format — the other four are one click away in the menu bar panel.
The palette deck
Six tools. Zero clutter.
Everything Huewright does, dealt as six chroma cards. Each one is the exact color of the job it describes.
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One click to copy
Arm the picker from the menu bar or with your hotkey, hover, click — the color is on your clipboard instantly, and a swatch appears in the menu bar.
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Any format you need
HEX, RGB, HSL, Swift NSColor code, or CSS — set a default and every pick copies in it. The other formats are one click away in the panel.
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Pick history
Your last 20 colors are kept in the panel and persist between launches. Click any swatch to copy it again — no need to re-hunt the pixel.
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Global hotkey
Arm the picker from anywhere with a keystroke (⌃⌥C by default, customizable in Settings) — even when another app is frontmost.
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Private by design
Native Swift and SwiftUI, no Electron, no Dock icon, no network calls, no telemetry. Pixels are sampled live, formatted, and discarded.
#EF476F · 349°Under the hood
Engineered like the OS it lives in.
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Real pixel sampling
Huewright reads the screen with CGWindowListCreateImage, capturing a tiny region around your cursor below the overlay window — so the loupe never photographs itself. A 1×1 capture is drawn into a known-RGBA bitmap to read the exact pixel color, whatever the display's pixel format.
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Native, not wrapped
Pure Swift and SwiftUI with a MenuBarExtra scene — no Electron, no webview, no background daemons. The loupe is a transparent overlay window drawn with interpolation off, so every source pixel becomes a crisp grid cell. It launches in a blink and renders like a first-party macOS citizen.
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Private by design
Huewright makes zero network requests. No analytics, no crash reporting phoning home, no account, no sign-in. Screen capture stays on your machine: pixels are sampled live, formatted as text, and discarded. The Screen Recording permission exists so macOS — not Huewright — polices who can read your screen.
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Open & hackable
The full Xcode project ships with the download. Want a CMYK format or a bigger loupe? It's six Swift files and a README — add a case to ColorFormat, build it, make it yours.
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Pricing
Free. Forever.
Huewright is a gift from the studio — a small, perfect tool, priced like one.
- Every format — HEX, RGB, HSL, Swift NSColor, CSS
- Magnifier loupe, pick history, and global hotkey
- Launch at login and full Settings
- Complete Xcode project source included
- Free updates, whenever the eyedropper learns new tricks
No trial · No subscription · No catch
Get Huewright freeFAQ
Fine print, plain language.
Everything about permissions, formats, and the source — pull a drawer.
Why does Huewright need Screen Recording permission?
To read the color of a pixel, Huewright has to look at your screen — and macOS gates screen reading behind the Screen Recording permission. The first time you arm the picker, Huewright explains this in plain language before the system prompt appears. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere: pixels are sampled live, formatted as text, and discarded. Grant it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording, then relaunch the app.
Which color formats can I copy?
Five: HEX (#B388FF), RGB (rgb(179, 136, 255)), HSL (hsl(265, 100%, 71%)), Swift NSColor code, and CSS. Pick a default in Settings and every click copies in that format — the others are one click away in the menu bar panel.
Will Huewright work on Apple Silicon?
Yes — it's a universal Swift binary that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.
How does the global hotkey work?
Press ⌃⌥C anywhere — even with another app frontmost — and the picker arms instantly. You can record your own combination in Settings. The hotkey needs no extra permissions because it uses the standard macOS hotkey API.
Does Huewright send any data anywhere?
No. Huewright makes zero network requests — no analytics, no telemetry, no accounts. Everything happens on your Mac, between the app and the pixels under your cursor.
Can I modify it?
Please do. The download includes the full Xcode project — six Swift files and a README. Add your own copy format, change the loupe, rebrand it. Heads-up: the Swift was authored on Linux and hasn't been compiled, so open the .xcodeproj in Xcode on a Mac, set your signing team, and press ⌘R.
Huewright 1.0 · Universal
Download
Get Huewright for your Mac.
Free for macOS 13 and later. One click, and every pixel is yours.
- Step 01Download the zip — the complete Xcode project, free.
- Step 02Open it in Xcode on your Mac and set your signing team.
- Step 03Press ⌘R — the eyedropper moves into your menu bar.
This build ships as a complete Xcode project — open it, set your signing team, press ⌘R, and the eyedropper moves into your menu bar. The Swift was authored on Linux and hasn't been compiled yet. On first pick you'll be asked for Screen Recording permission (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording) — that's how macOS lets any app read pixels. Huewright is a Cloverwright product.