Quick Color Picker Elite is a fast and feature rich Windows color picker designed for developers, designers, and digital creators.
Pick colors directly from your screen, inspect them using a live magnifier, convert colors between multiple formats, organize colors with comments and favourites, search and filter your palette, create color combinations, and import or export color lists.
| Property | Details |
|---|---|
| Application Name | Quick Color Picker Elite |
| Current Version | 3.0.0 |
| Release Date | August 12, 2026 |
| Platform | Windows |
| Architecture | Win32 |
| Language | Delphi / Object Pascal |
| IDE | RAD Studio 13.1 Florence |
| Framework | VCL |
| Developer | SR Studio 24 - BD |
| Copyright | © 2026 SR Studio 24 - BD |
- Pick colors directly from anywhere on the screen
- Customizable keyboard shortcut
- Default color pick shortcut:
Ctrl+Shift+C - Dedicated Pick Color button
- Continuous color picking using the
Ctrlkey - Cancel color picking with
Escor right click - Automatic clipboard copy after picking
- Warning when the selected global hotkey is already in use
- Live screen magnifier for accurate color selection
- 3x, 6x, and 9x zoom levels
- Full screen magnifier mode
- Double click to toggle full screen mode
- Correct pixel ratio in maximized mode
- Full panel rendering without unwanted side bars
- Off screen rendering buffer for smooth updates
- Reduced flickering during live preview
Quick Color Picker Elite supports the following color formats:
- HTML / HEX
- RGB
- Delphi / VCL
- HSL
- HSL 240
- HSV
- CMY
- CMYK
- Save picked colors to the color list
- Add custom comments to colors
- Mark colors as favourites
- Smart duplicate detection
- Preserve comments and favourites when handling duplicates
- Remove duplicate colors
- Clear all colors except favourites
- Confirmation before deleting favourite colors
- Live color previews
- Optional selection highlight
- Search by color code
- Search by comment
- Search by common color names
- Show favourites only
- Show commented colors only
- Full screen color list with search
- Automatic search box focus
Ctrl+Fshortcut for the full screen search view
Common color names such as Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, White, Black, Gray, and Silver are supported.
- Mark colors as favourites
- Show favourites only
- Preserve favourite status during import
- Protect favourite colors from accidental deletion
- Export color lists
- Import color lists
- Add imported colors to the existing list
- Clean Import mode
- Smart merging of imported colors
- Preserve existing comments
- Preserve favourite status
- Display the number of newly added colors
- Color Combination Preview window
- Color Combine Manager integration
- Create and manage color combinations
The built in HTML exporter creates a modern and searchable color palette.
The exported page includes:
- Color previews
- Favourite indicators
- Live search and filtering
- One click clipboard copying
- Copy confirmation
- RGB details
- Delphi color code details
- Automatic color emoji support
- Light theme
- Dark theme
- System Default theme
- Automatic Windows system theme detection
- Uppercase and lowercase color code display
- Show or hide color code prefixes such as
#and$ - Always on top option
- Tooltip enable or disable option
- Graceful handling of history save failures
- Protection against crashes caused by disk full conditions
- Protection against permission denied errors
- Protection against locked history files
- Previously picked colors remain available in the current session when history saving fails
- Improved global hotkey registration handling
- General code cleanup
- Stability improvements
- Multiple bug fixes
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Start color picking (Default) |
Ctrl+F |
Toggle color search view |
Esc |
Cancel color picking |
| Right Click | Cancel color picking |
Ctrl + Pick Color |
Continue picking colors |
The color pick shortcut can be changed from the application settings.
| Format | Example |
|---|---|
| HTML / HEX | #FF5733 |
| RGB | 255, 87, 51 |
| Delphi / VCL | clRed |
| HSL | 11°, 100%, 60% |
| HSL 240 | 7, 240, 144 |
| HSV | 11°, 80%, 100% |
| CMY | 0%, 66%, 80% |
| CMYK | 0%, 66%, 80%, 0% |
- Windows 7 or later
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 recommended
- Win32 application
- 1024 × 768 or higher display resolution recommended
No Delphi or RAD Studio installation is required to run the compiled application.
The source project is developed and tested using:
- RAD Studio 13.1 Florence
- VirtualStringTree
- Delphi Win32 Compiler
- VCL
- Windows development environment
The official release build is compiled using RAD Studio 13.1 Florence.
No additional third-party components are required, except for the Virtual String Tree component included with the project.
The project is organized into separate source units covering the main application functionality.