Chromapod it’s an app for your color schemes management that doesn’t complicates your existence, with little adornments and lots of utilities it will satisfy your color needs without hogging your time.
Wether you are a graphics designer or an app developer, color it’s a basic element of communication in your work so we made this tool with the idea that color schemes must always be within reach in a convenient way. So in a nutshell Chromapod is a color scheme repository , but one with style.
We invite you to continue reading to know more about what Chromapod can do for you.
Chromapod organize your color schemes as palettes, without limiting the number of palettes you can create nor the number of colors contained for palette. You can create new palettes and colors from scratch, import them from other applications or web pages. In Chromapod palettes are the organizing element and you are the master organizer, since you can rearrange, edit, duplicate and eliminate the palettes and their contents as many times as necessary.
Chromapod allows you to modify continuously all your palettes and colors without restriction. You can add and delete colors on your saved palettes, change the arrange or color labels and also change their correspondent data and attributes on any saved color.
Chromapod color editor it’s at the same time similar and unique, it works just as many others color panels but with significant differences, to begin with it allows color values modification on various concurrent modes (without having to switch modes); you may start with a new color or use other as initial point, modify it as you please and then you choose between update your initial color or add a new one. You can use color within Chromapod or copy or drag color from another application as color element or color code definition (i.e. hexadecimal code fbfa45).
It is of special interest a feature called enveloping frame, said feature allows you choose a complementary color to use as a reference for your new one, so you can define the exact color match to the former. In the same window!. Totally convenient.
Chromapod has a color ramp generator, you select one or two colors as parameters and start a transformation in the number of steps you choose. With the color editor you can make ramps in any of four ways:
Color ramp: You select two colors or one color with some modification you made and the goal is to compute the variations between the two.
Hue ramp: With any starting color you can define initial and ending hue parameters to compute the color variations.
Saturation ramp: With any selected color you define initial and ending saturation values to compute the variations.
Brightness ramp: With the selected color you establish initial and ending brightness values to compute the variations.
With Chromapod you can use your palettes as finished product, you can export entirely as a ColorList (an Apple standard format) either for use them on another application that supports said format or for include them in the system color picker - a very simple operation in Chromapod-such files could be your xxx for colleagues or clients.
A more simple and versatile way is to create a printed swatch in any of the 4 predefined presentation formats as a printed document or PDF file. These swatches may include color coding information.
Your color schemes can make so much more than standing there and be cute, for you can share any color you manage there; Chromapod colors could be used in any application that lets you define custom colors with little effort an many ways to accomplish the task:
It is very common for applications to summon the system color picker to let the user customize colored elements, this system panel is compatible with all operations from above. So generally speaking you can enjoy Chromapod benefits anywhere on your Mac.
For those who need to preserve color schemes from before along with new ones you could rescue color definitions from other apps by any of the following means:
Chromapod has the ability to generate palettes by extracting color definitions in source code, in this process every color definition contained in the source code generate a color element, Chromapod can recognize such instructions in the same programming languages in which it generates color definitions, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, SwiftUI y VisualBasic. It can recognize several instructions per line as long as they are properly separated with commas, tabulation, semicolon or line terminators. The label for the imported color will be the one of the variable name that stores the defined color (if this the case) or the hexadecimal code, this process is quite simple:
Step 1: Get the source code.
Step 2: Copy/paste or drag/paste the source code to the color extractor.
Step 3: Chose among the obtained colors (if any color was defined in the source code) the ones you want to keep. Every color has its label set either as hexadecimal color code or variable name if said color was assigned to one in the source code.
As was mentioned earlier, Chromapod doesn’t want to hog your time but to be helpful and to make the workload lighter that’s why if its main window is cumbersome you can opt to open the color selector; it is a simple window that holds all of your schemes catalog for you to reference or to share color elements (or their definition instructions) with other applications by copying or dragging them. Its compact design makes it a good companion in your precious screen space.
Compatible with iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro.
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