Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose

For web designers, tools that give instant color codes from anywhere on their display are invaluable. How much, then, would a tool that can do that in the real world be worth? Hopefully you said $649, because that’s what Pantone is charging for its new CAPSURE. It’s the latest in a long line of tools and utilities designed to help graphics-minded people get accurate color information, a sort of handheld scanner — just place it on anything and it’ll ID your hue in a variety of formats including CMYK, sRGB, and good ‘ol HTML. Think of it as a physical eye dropper that won’t get your subjects wet, a device that just about anyone who’s ever created a webpage would love to have. Sadly, at that price, it’s bound for only the most well appointed of utility belts. Continue reading Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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