I just made a quick program to help me find colours of things that are on my screen. What it dose is when I press the hot key it gets the colour of the current pixel that my mouse is over. It pops up saying the colour code in the HEX format then copies it to the systems clipboard. I needed something that for a while then I decided to create one as I could not find one. I use the hex code for making webpages. It has saved me a lot of time because now I don’t need to look back into code to find out what the exact colour is of areas on the site. Very handy if you are creating a page add-ins, like google ads.

In the end I decided to share it with all of the developers out there that need something like this. I used AutoHotKeys and included both the source and compiled version in the download.

Here is the description that I used on my site.
The HEX Color Getter is a program that I made in auto hot keys that allows programers or website developers to figure out what the colour is of the current pixle that the mouse is over. To use it just start the program, you will see a little H with a green background in your taskbar. When you want to figure out what the colour is of a specific pixle on your computer screen (works on multi monitor setups) press Ctrl + Alt + Z. You will see a dialog box pop up and once you close the box it is automaticly sent to the computers clipboard. Now just paste it into your program. Note that you may need to append a # or 0x infront of it as its just the hex numbers on its own. This program includes both the source and a compiled version. The program lisenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.

You can download it now from my project page.
HEX Color Getter