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Oh shit, were y'all waiting on me? Okay... so I couldn't find a pic that said "hey, here's the official Hyperion yellow", and most of the pics were shaded or had that Borderlands crusty look that we all know and love. But I found a couple that seem to have done the job and the yellow appears to be around these colors:

HTML: #FFCC00

RGB: (255,204,0)

OR

HTML: #FCC626

RGB: (252,198,38)

Let me know how these look to you! Also, I highly recommend downloading Pixie and using it. It's free and stupidly easy to use.

Even if the color picker is safe, there might be something sketchy with the website. Some unusual JS perhaps?

Anyway, I've been using Pixie and it's been great.

If you're on OS X use ColorSnapper. If you're on Windows use Pixie. I like OS-level apps for my color pickers because they let me pick colors from anywhere on my screen, not just in my browser.

For all my graphic designers out there: http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

This little program has saved me so much time. Hover over a color ANYWHERE on your monitor, press CTRL+ALT+C and bam, you have the hex code.

I'm using Pixie on Windows.

It's a 11 KiB portable application that spawns a tiny floating window, allowing copying the hovered color. Comes with three hotkeys:

• Ctrl + Alt + C Copy color in HTML format
• Ctrl + Alt + X Open color mixer
• Ctrl + Alt + Z Open magnifier

I'm a big fan of "Pixie"

It lists out the RGB, hex, and HTML codes and even lets you open a Windows colorpicker window. It's a really tiny and accessible program and so far has not failed me once.

Nope, color of the top floor should be RGB(0, 255, 0). The color is kinda mixed with various shades so what is in the picture is on average RGB(3, 253, 129).

Bottom floor is orangey-yellow with RGB(254, 253, 144)

If you're having trouble with colors, you can use the eyedropper tool in an image editor or some other tool, you'll be able to find out how much R, G and B there is. I haven't used this myself but it could help: http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

for people who don't have photoshop or can't run it at the same time as the program in which they are working, pixie is a great alternative. Their website looks kinda sketch, but it's available for download elsewhere too.

This is what you're looking for right here in you're on a PC:

Pixie

You can use a keyboard shortcut to activate it at any time, and a another shortcut to automatically copy the HEX value to your clipboard. AWESOME little free utility, and I've never found anything else quite as nice.

Not aware of anything like it. What I have used though in the past to help me when I am a little confused is a free program called Pixie. It does the following; "Run it, simply point to a color and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected color in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current coordinates of your mouse pointer. " I find occasionally knowing the RGB values helps me get on the right track :) Not perfect, but something. Link

Edit: I just looked up for other apps and found an apple/android app called Dankam that may help, though I haven't used it.

The other answers are all good. But if you need to quickly check the color of a series of things in PPT (or in any other program), install Pixie from Nattyware. It will also pick up colors from within inserted pictures and such.

And at $ 0.00 (anybody know what that works out to in Euro or Yen?), the price is quite reasonable.

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

Windows OS utilities:

• RAMMap - described as an "advanced physical memory usage analysis utility", and it does a decent job at it. Yet it has another very nifty feature, that I use almost every day: it let's you empty currently stored memory in physical ram ( windows always pre-loads a bunch of memory to ram to decrease load times, but it can sometimes slow down your computer by a considerable amount, especially if you have 8 or less than 8 GB of ram. So if you have ever run into an issue where your PC feels really slow for no apparent issue, this tool can solve it by letting you empty memory manually ).
• Process Explorer - basically an immensely better task manager: detailed report of every single running process in real time; processes are color coded and can be sorted or ordered in a tree structure; every task manager function accessible in a single window.

Other utility tool:

• Pixie- a color picker. It tells the color code of anything your computer mice points to on the screen. ( There are probably a bunch of these nowadays, but I just love how fast and simple this one is. )

I wrote a sloppy pixie clone to learn a bit about the language and to see how easy/hard it would be to create WinApi applications. Answer: Quite easy.

http://colllor.com/ and http://colorschemedesigner.com/ are my two favorite color helpers. Colllor.com would be my first go-to in this regard, but try the other one, and set it to tertiary. Enter your hex and play around for ten minutes or so.

Another amazing tool is pixie by nattyware. It's insanely small, it's free, and it will be one of the tools you find yourself using every day for colors.