pika

Massively appreciate all your testing on the first beta. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds a toggle to suppress the format of the color on copy

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue when displaying French on the splash window
• fixes an issue with the window size obscuring the UI in some cases
• fixes an issue with copying data as text displaying the wrong values

Excited to try out some new ideas in this beta, along with, drumroll... support for French (merci, @AClmbr!) As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds French language support
• adds the color space of your main display, and uses it as the default option (this wasn't always included in availableColorSpaces)
• adds toggleable color names (thanks to color-names)
• adds the ability to export data as text, and in JSON format

Excited to roll out some changes to how Pika looks and works, with the goal of making it faster and easier to use. This update includes an overhaul of the swatch itself, relocation of the color format to the toolbar, and general accessibility improvements. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Simplfies the swatch design
• Updates and simplifies color copying
• Moves the color format from preferences to the toolbar
• Initialises color picking on the global shortcut / when showing Pika
• Removes the background on swatches in favour of a drop shadow, to improve consistency and readability
• Adds swap colors as a keyboard shortcut to both the menu, and to About

Bug Fixes

• Improves accessibility in the swatch component
• Adds the preferences shortcut to the right-click menu bar menu

Final tweaks before release. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Adds swap as a keyboard shortcut to both the menu, and to About

Minor bug fixes and updates. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Improves the swatch design
• Initialises picking using the global shortcut
• Removes the background on swatches in favour of a drop shadow, to improve consistency and readability

Bug Fixes

• Adds the preferences shortcut to the right-click menu bar menu

Excited to try out some pretty significant changes to the UI in this first beta for v0.0.10. It includes an overhaul of the swatch itself, removing the contextual menu, and the relocation of the color format option from preferences to the toolbar. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Updates and simplifies color copying
• Simplfies the swatch design
• Moves the color format from preferences to the toolbar
• Initialises color picking on the global shortcut / when showing Pika

Bug Fixes

• Accessibility improvements in the swatch component

Super excited about this update, which includes support for the Touch Bar, the first building blocks for localization, and some rad new features to make picking colours easier. I've really appreciated your feedback and suggestions, and a massive cheers to everyone who has shared Pika. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for the Touch Bar
• Localization across the UI, opening the doors to translations in future
• Adds the option to hide Pika while picking, via the main window menu
• Adds a button to quickly swap colours

Some minor updates, fixes, and a quick way to swap colours. As always, thanks for sharing and supporting Pika, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for copying direct from the Touch Bar
• Adds a button to quickly swap colours
• Makes hiding Pika while picking optional, via the main window menu

Bug fixes

• Suppresses the Touch Bar visualisation for macOS 10.15
• Adds missing localization items

A wild beta appears! Super excited about this one, and it's been so gratifying to see all the ideas and messages. As always, thanks for sharing and supporting Pika, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for the Touch Bar
• Localization across the UI, opening the doors to translations in future
• Pika now hides when you're picking, so you can access the whole display

Hello! Just a quick note to say a massive thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contribute suggestions, feedback, crash logs and encouragement. A bunch of rad new features are in this update, and it's largely thanks to the community. If you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for HSL (alongside HEX, RGB, and HSB)
• Support for color spaces (like Abobe RGB, P3, and sRGB)
• The menu bar icon now has a right click menu to make it easier to quit (and open About / check for updates / jump to Preferences) without having to open the app
• Keyboard shortcuts for picking colors (⌘D and ⇧⌘D) and copying them to the clipboard (⌘C and ⇧⌘C), which you can find in About, with some sweet animations
• An option in Preferences to hide the menu bar icon (I'd recommend setting a global shortcut, but you can always access it by double clicking the app)
• Unlike here, HEX codes are now lowercase by default, for readability
• You can also now sign up to beta releases in Preferences, if you're comfortable with trading new stuff for rough edges

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue on Big Sur where the settings menu would be greyed out until selected (still seems to need to be opened twice to show keyboard shortcuts, though)
• Fixes an issue where a single focus ring would display with keyboard navigation enabled (accessibility improvements are on the roadmap)
• Improves picker context menu icon display in dark and light modes
• Zeroes out values for HSB and HSL when pure white or black

Updates

• Adds keyboard shortcuts to About
• Adds a right click menu to the status bar icon to make it easier to quit without opening the app

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where a single focus ring would display if keyboard navigation is enabled (accessibility improvements are on the roadmap)
• Improves picker context menu icon display in dark and light modes

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where the footer would not update

Updates

• Support for HSL
• Support for color spaces
• Keyboard shortcuts for picking (⌘D and ⇧⌘D) and copying (⌘C and ⇧⌘C)
• Option to hide the menu bar icon
• You can now sign up to beta releases (like this one!) in preferences
• Hex codes are lowercase by default, for readability

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue in macOS11, where the settings menu would be greyed out until selected (still seems to need to be clicked twice to show keyboard shortcuts, though)

Bug fixes

• Fix for a tinsy, tiny bug that caused Pika to crash on startup if you had your colour profile set to HSB (thanks to @aussiegeek for catching it)

Updates

• Pika was a little pushy on startup, so this update ensures it's a more chill(wave) menu bar app

Bug fixes

• Code refactored, which is like a fresh coat of paint

Updates

• Fancy new splash screen on first startup, to help with initial settings
• A tidied about view
• Some new animations on startup

Bug fixes

• Fixes for macOS 10.15

Updates

• Whooo! Catalina support! You can now run Pika on macOS 10.15 Catalina
• Removed some code, tidied some things

Bug fixes

• Rewrote the buggy preferences view

Minor fix to preference settings, which feels like a shame to have to do a whole update for. Oh well, such is life.

Phew, second release / update testing. This adds window reinitialisation when launching the app in Alfred / Spotlight / et al, if it's already open. Win win.

The first release of Pika, an open-source colour picker app for macOS.