I’ve been using a color tool called Amiasoft Color Pro for several years now, but recently I found a free tool called Color Cop (www.colorcop.net) that I like very much. It’s a small tool that lets you drag an eyedropper to a color on a web page and find out the hex color value in use. This is great if there’s a color you like and would want in your web page or blog, but you don’t know what the exact color value is.

One of the reasons why I like Color Cop is because it displays a zoomed view so that you can zero in on the exact pixel of the color you want. This is especially useful if you’re working with a gradient, which is made up of several colors.

Color Cop is free, but I do encourage you to click on the Donate button to help support continued development on this delightful little tool.