With Skala, Bjango wants to build a “precise user interface and icon design tool”, and today’s Skala Color provides a sneak peek at the development and design-oriented options that will likely be part of the final product. The hex code of the color you’re currently previewing is available in the middle of the window with a button to quickly copy it in the clipboard if you already have a color code in the clipboard, Skala Color will automatically recognize it and let you preview it in the picker with the click of a button. Skala Color combines a traditional color picker UI with sliders for opacity and 4x precision hue. Once installed, Skala Color adds a special color picker tab to the system-wide OS X color panel, which has supported a plugin architecture for years now (notable examples include Panic’s Developer Color Picker and Jesper’s Hex Color Picker). Skala Color is free, to help spread the word about Skala, our upcoming design tool. Skala Color is a standard OS X color picker, so it works with most Mac apps. Skala for Mac isn’t ready for its public debut yet, but Bjango, makers of Skala Preview and iStat, have today released Skala Color, a free plugin for the OS X Color Picker that comes with useful options for designers and developers and that offers a glimpse of features that will be included in the final Skala app.

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