Your color schemes made easy
Compatible with iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro.
Chromapod is an application for color schemes management that doesn’t add complications to your life, with little bells and whistles and lots of benefits it will give solutions to your color needs without hogging your time.
If you are a graphics designer or an app developer, surely color is a basic communication element in your work and we have made this application thinking that color schemes are like friends, as in one should keep them within hands reach. Because of this before anything else Chromapod is a color scheme repository, but a repository with style.
We invite you to keep reading to learn more of what Chromapod can do for you.
Chromapod can organize your color schemes as palettes, without limiting neither their quantity nor the color elements within them. You can create new palettes and colors from scratch, to import them from another applications or even automatically retrieve color definitions from applications or web pages source code. In Chromapod palettes are the organizing element and you are the organizer because you can reorganize, edit, duplicate and delete the palettes or any of their elements as you need.
Chromapod allows you to continuously modify color and palettes without restrictions. You can add and remove color on saved palettes, change their order or it’s name and even modify their color attributes.
Chromapod color editor has some significative differences, for starts it allows editing attributes on vary modes concurrently (without the need to change between modes); you can start from scratch or from an existing color, modify it and then decide whether to save its changes or to make a new entry in a scheme. An existing color may come within Chromapod or you can copy or drag a color from another application (as color element or as a compatible color code).
One particular difference, Chromapod has something we called surrounding frame, it allows you to not blindingly modify colors, as in not knowing how well they will combine with other colors on your scheme, you can drag up to two different colors to the frame and to see how well they combine with the color you are editing. On the very same editor! Totally convenient.
Chromapod can make color variations also known as color ramps, or color gradients, such variations are made using one color and transforming it to another one with an specific number of variations (steps) defined by the user.
With the color editor you can make color ramps with any of three modes:
With Chromapod you can use color palettes as final product; you can export them whole as a Color List (an Apple standard format) for use them on any application that uses color or include them in the system color selector - not to mention that Chromapod can accomplish this with a single clic -. The Color List files became product for your colleagues or clients.
Your color schemes can do much more than sit there and look pretty, because you can share the colors managed in Chromapod with other applications using various ways:
Generally speaking, applications let the user use the system Color Picker when it is time to select a custom color, this MacOS service can accept operations 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the above, so generally speaking you can use Chromapod services nearly everywhere.
For those who need more than just catalogue the colors schemes of their new projects, but to catalogue those from previous projects, they can add colors by several means.
Note:Chromapod can process programming instructions for color definition on the same formats and languages it can display on the color selector. It can recognize several colors at once as long as each instruction is separated by a colon, semicolon, tab code or line feed. The name for each color retrieved will be the variable name that holds the color if there is one failing it will be the web code for it, and following will be the instruction itself in parenthesis. You can paste all of your code and see Chromapod retrieve all the colors in it, without help. 😲
As it’s been said before Chromapod doesn’t want to hog your attention, but to assist and facilitate the work and if it’s main window it’s an obstruction you can use the color selector instead, which is a smaller window which its sole purpose is to show and share colors with other applications using a minimal screen space.
Chromapod is an application to help the user to maintain a color scheme repository, any data created is stored on the equipment, neither this data or any other user data is reported to any person or entity.
The Chromapod team thank you for your interest, this app was made with great care, although if you have any comment or question please use this page to let us know, we’ll contact you back as soon as possible.