I turned my old Color Picker app into a Color Intelligence Platform for Designers
A few years ago, my app was just a simple pixel color picker.
Pick a pixel → get HEX/RGB.
Useful, but honestly… replaceable.
So I decided to completely rethink the product.
Instead of building “another color picker”, I started building a color workflow system for creators, developers, and modern brands.
Today, the new update is finally live:
Color Picker - Pixel Color on the App Store
What changed?
🎨 From Color Picking → Brand Color Intelligence
Most color apps stop at extraction.
Mine now tries to understand color context:
- Brand semantic palettes
- Color harmony systems
- Shade generation
- Contrast analysis
- Gradient systems
- Wallpaper generation from color prompts
- Palette extraction from photos
- AI-powered color inspiration
The goal is simple:
Generate once → apply everywhere.
A single palette should work across:
- UI
- branding
- wallpapers
- presentations
- social media
- product mockups
📸 Color Attention & Visual Analysis
One feature I’m especially excited about is Color Attention.
Instead of only extracting colors, the app analyzes:
- which areas attract visual attention
- dominant object colors
- text visibility
- color balance
- focus distribution
Kind of like a heatmap for design attention.
This became surprisingly useful for:
- poster design
- thumbnails
- social creatives
- UI hierarchy checking
🧠 Why I rebuilt it
I noticed something interesting:
Designers don’t actually struggle with finding colors.
They struggle with:
- consistency
- palette scaling
- semantic usage
- applying colors across assets
So the app evolved from:
“pick a color”
into:
“build a usable color system”.
⚡ Built for modern Apple ecosystem
The new version is optimized for:
- modern iOS
- high-resolution image workflows
- fast palette processing
- smoother UI interactions
- creator-focused workflows
I also redesigned many interactions to feel less like a utility app and more like a creative tool.
🚀 What’s next
Currently exploring:
- live camera color tracking
- LUT-style color analysis
- design semantic tokens
- Figma workflow integrations
- brand identity generation
- AI color prompts
Would love feedback from designers, developers, and indie makers here.
Especially:
- What color workflow problems still feel annoying today?
- What tools do you wish existed?
- What part of color systems feels overcomplicated?