La Boite a Couleurs

La Boite a Couleurs is a small software application whose purpose is to help you pick colors from your screen and get information about the corresponding RGB, HLS, HSV, CMY, and CMYK values. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

Well-structured GUI

The tool makes use of a multi-tabbed environment in order to help you quickly switch between the picked color values. A help manual is not comprised in the package so you need to experiment a little bit with the built-in options in order to get an idea about how the program works.

Color picker, color maps, and list with color names

La Boite a Couleurs gives you the possibility to work with a ‘picker’ in order to select a screen color. You simply need to click on the desired desktop area, and the tool automatically reveals information about the RGB, HLS, HSV, CMY, and CMYK values.
Plus, you are allowed to manually adjust the RGB, HLS, HSV, CMY, and CMYK values (with the aid of built-in sliders) in order to create other colors on the fly.
What’s more, you can choose between three color maps (hue/lightness, hue/saturation, lightness/saturation), access lists with different color names (e.g. RGB, HTML, Pantone, Web Palette), run the tool at Windows startup, adjust the size of the pipette (small, big, bigger), as well as show or hide several panels in/from the main window.
Tests have pointed out that the application carries out a task quickly and without errors. It remains light on system resources so you may keep it running in the background, without having to worry that it affects the overall performance of the computer.

Final remarks

To sum things up, La Boite a Couleurs comes bundled with several useful tools for selecting colors from the desktop and converting them to other color modes. It is suitable especially for graphic designers.