I do a little Web design on the side for a few friend and a few of my own side projects here and there. Every so often, I visit a Web site that has a great color layout. All the colors are smooth and work so well with one another. Instead of hunting through a CSS file or trying to recreate the color myself, I use ColorZilla to point out the best colors that are inside my Firefox browser window.

Here is what the author of the Firefox extension has to say about it:

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page.

If you are a Web site designer or work on graphics via your personal computer, this is the Firefox extension for you. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.

Some of the new features with ColorZilla 0.8.3.1 are: fully compatible with Firefox 1.5, addded %url-full%, %url-path% and %url-file% status bar fields (useful for frames), added RGB percentage status bar field, added ‘Export palette’ option to palette manager, and more.

There really isn’t a better right hand man when it comes to color selection on your computer. ColorZilla has everything you could ever want or need and the best part is, it is totally free.

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