Tricks And Tweaks

Minor bug fixes and updates. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Improves the swatch design
• Initialises picking using the global shortcut
• Removes the background on swatches in favour of a drop shadow, to improve consistency and readability

Bug Fixes

• Adds the preferences shortcut to the right-click menu bar menu

Less Is More

Excited to try out some pretty significant changes to the UI in this first beta for v0.0.10. It includes an overhaul of the swatch itself, removing the contextual menu, and the relocation of the color format option from preferences to the toolbar. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Updates and simplifies color copying
• Simplfies the swatch design
• Moves the color format from preferences to the toolbar
• Initialises color picking on the global shortcut / when showing Pika

Bug Fixes

• Accessibility improvements in the swatch component

Touché, Pika

Super excited about this update, which includes support for the Touch Bar, the first building blocks for localization, and some rad new features to make picking colours easier. I've really appreciated your feedback and suggestions, and a massive cheers to everyone who has shared Pika. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for the Touch Bar
• Localization across the UI, opening the doors to translations in future
• Adds the option to hide Pika while picking, via the main window menu
• Adds a button to quickly swap colours

Pocket Change(s)

Some minor updates, fixes, and a quick way to swap colours. As always, thanks for sharing and supporting Pika, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for copying direct from the Touch Bar
• Adds a button to quickly swap colours
• Makes hiding Pika while picking optional, via the main window menu

Bug fixes

• Suppresses the Touch Bar visualisation for macOS 10.15
• Adds missing localization items

Humane Touch

A wild beta appears! Super excited about this one, and it's been so gratifying to see all the ideas and messages. As always, thanks for sharing and supporting Pika, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for the Touch Bar
• Localization across the UI, opening the doors to translations in future
• Pika now hides when you're picking, so you can access the whole display

Color Spaces, Shortcuts, HSL, Oh My!

Hello! Just a quick note to say a massive thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contribute suggestions, feedback, crash logs and encouragement. A bunch of rad new features are in this update, and it's largely thanks to the community. If you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• Support for HSL (alongside HEX, RGB, and HSB)
• Support for color spaces (like Abobe RGB, P3, and sRGB)
• The menu bar icon now has a right click menu to make it easier to quit (and open About / check for updates / jump to Preferences) without having to open the app
• Keyboard shortcuts for picking colors (⌘D and ⇧⌘D) and copying them to the clipboard (⌘C and ⇧⌘C), which you can find in About, with some sweet animations
• An option in Preferences to hide the menu bar icon (I'd recommend setting a global shortcut, but you can always access it by double clicking the app)
• Unlike here, HEX codes are now lowercase by default, for readability
• You can also now sign up to beta releases in Preferences, if you're comfortable with trading new stuff for rough edges

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue on Big Sur where the settings menu would be greyed out until selected (still seems to need to be opened twice to show keyboard shortcuts, though)
• Fixes an issue where a single focus ring would display with keyboard navigation enabled (accessibility improvements are on the roadmap)
• Improves picker context menu icon display in dark and light modes
• Zeroes out values for HSB and HSL when pure white or black

Polish And Shine

Updates

• Adds keyboard shortcuts to About
• Adds a right click menu to the status bar icon to make it easier to quit without opening the app

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where a single focus ring would display if keyboard navigation is enabled (accessibility improvements are on the roadmap)
• Improves picker context menu icon display in dark and light modes

The Second Alpha Beta

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where the footer would not update

The Alpha Beta

Updates

• Support for HSL
• Support for color spaces
• Keyboard shortcuts for picking (⌘D and ⇧⌘D) and copying (⌘C and ⇧⌘C)
• Option to hide the menu bar icon
• You can now sign up to beta releases (like this one!) in preferences
• Hex codes are lowercase by default, for readability

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue in macOS11, where the settings menu would be greyed out until selected (still seems to need to be clicked twice to show keyboard shortcuts, though)

Hue, Brightness, Saturation, Crash

Bug fixes

• Fix for a tinsy, tiny bug that caused Pika to crash on startup if you had your colour profile set to HSB (thanks to @aussiegeek for catching it)