For example Terminal.app -> Preferences -> Settings (color fields for text and Cursor colors) In every application where you can change the color for anything with color field, you can click the border of 'color field' and you will get the color panel again. This works in every application where you can change fonts. You can for example when entering text into textbox here, right click for bring up contextual menu, and go to 'Font -> Show colors' directly from the Safari. This is a clipboard to save colors, but doesn't report hex values, CIE values or the ITU-R Y'PbPr/Y'CbCr values for the chosen color.Įverywhere when you can show the font panel (usually ⌘T), you can click the 'Text color' icon in the font panel and you will get again the 'Color panel' (with picker). You will get the small color panel shown above, where you can click the 'magnifying lens' and you can grab the color from anywhere in the screen.

Look closely at font controls and you will likely see wording like Format -> Font -> Show Colors, or Format -> Show colors. This picker is almost everywhere if you look carefully. The Digital Color Meter in /Applications/Utilities/ is the best choice.