ShowLine Color

Pick colors off your screen and keep them on a rope

Windows

Design Tools

Productivity

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm the one person behind ShowLine Color. I shipped it this week — the frustration behind it is older than the app. You know the loop. You sample a brand color, paste the hex, then paste something else over it, and twenty minutes later you are squinting at a screenshot trying to work out whether that blue was #2CA074 or #2BA276. Every picker I tried — including the free ones built into Windows — treated a color as a one-night stand: grab one value, close the window, forget it. So I built the shelf. A color card hangs on the rope and stays. How it works: • Bring the pointer to the edge of the screen and the rope slides out. • The loupe samples a 15×15 pixel area, not a single pixel, so you can see what you're actually grabbing before you click. • Click a cell → hex / RGB / HSL are copied in your chosen format. • The color also hangs on the rope as a swatch card. It stays there across sessions. • Drag that card onto any text field — editor, design tool, chat — and the value is typed in. It is the part I use most, and the reason the app exists. The boring-but-important bits: • ~0% CPU idle, under 1 MB, starts instantly. • No account. No telemetry. No network code at all — you can watch it in Resource Monitor, it never opens a connection. • 12 languages. • $4.99 once. No subscription, no "pro" tier, no watermark. 7-day trial in the Microsoft Store. Honest comparison: if you need to grab one color a week, PowerToys ColorPicker is free and built in — use that. This is for people who work with a palette all day and are tired of keeping it in their head. Happy to answer anything: the Win32 color pipeline (sRGB, no color management surprises), why the loupe is 15×15, or how the drag-to-type works.