Topic: Visual Colour Selector is a colour palette preparation app for Windows 7 on up

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Visual Colour Selector is a colour palette preparation app for Windows 7 on up

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Visual Colour Selector

Visual Colour Selector is a colour palette preparation app that previews colours from 8 built-in colour definition (palette) files, including the predefined colours of CSS3 recognised by a wide range of browsers, the X11 colours (a set of 502 distinct color values with some used as the basis for the CSS colours), the wxColourDatabase colour database from wxWidgets (a cross-platform C++ graphical user interface software library), and two third-party palettes designed with suitability for colour-blind people in mind. Users can also add their own palette files using a simple text format and open and save several common file formats.
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You can copy colour names and RGB values in decimal or hex format to the clipboard for use in coding, web design etc.

You can create a subset of colours from any number of colour definition files as a custom selected palette, and then filter the selected palette to get a palette of colours optimised for visual colour separation using CIE delta-E colour separation standards, or generate an optimised palette from randomly generated colours with user-specified ranges of hue, saturation and value/luminance in HSV or HSL colour space.

Colours are also shown simulated as seen by people with colour deficiencies (protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia) and you can generate optimised palettes accounting for these colour deficiencies.

You can evaluate contrast between light and dark colours in a filtered palette according to WCAG 2.0 (ISO/IEC 40500:2012) criteria, with the option to evaluate the contrast accounting for colour deficiencies.

WCAG accessibility is increasingly a requirement for government websites, e.g. US Section 508 federal websites and digital content, the Canadian Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), UK government Digital Service Standard, EU commission websites, Australian Disability Discrimination Act, Hong Kong government websites, Indian government websites, etc.

You can view the light and dark palette colours in separate lists, based on whether the colours are respectively above or below the average luminance of the whole filtered palette.

You can save selected, filtered, light and dark palettes palettes in X11, JASC PAL, ACO, ASE and GIMP file formats, and also open palette files in the same file formats.

You can edit individual colour names and values in selected, filtered, light and dark palettes.

Selected, filtered, light and dark palettes are auto-saved together with optimiser settings to ensure that you won't lose working data when you close the app, or in the event of a crash.

You can also preview image files, including simulation of colour deficiencies.

You can download the freeware build of Visual Colour Selector via the links below (previous registration limitations have been removed). Compatible with Windows 7, 8, and 10.

Downloads for Visual Colour Selector

Visual Colour Selector is supported on Windows operating systems Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions, and has been tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Note: The previous Linux and Mac builds are no longer available due to zero feedback about anybody using the app on those systems.

Windows Download: Install_VisColSel120_32_All.zip, Version 1.2.0.0, built Feb 22nd 2021, 6.2 MB (32 bit)

Windows Download: Install_VisColSel120_64_All.zip, Version 1.2.0.0, built Feb 22nd 2021, 5.7 MB (64 bit)

Windows Download: Install_VisColSel120_Both.zip, Version 1.2.0.0, built Feb 22nd 2021, 11.9 MB (both 32 bit & 64 bit)

Also available at Softpedia: Softpedia Visual Colour Selector page
"Preview colors from various palettes with the help of this piece of software that comes with chromatic filtering and optimization, contrast assessment, and more"
100% Clean: This product was last tested in the Softpedia Labs on 25th of February 2021.

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