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An interactive tool that allows users to select colors visually from a spectrum, gradient, or palette rather than entering numeric values.
Color pickers are essential UI components in design software, web applications, and operating systems. Most color pickers display a two-dimensional gradient area (typically mapping saturation and value/lightness) alongside a hue slider, with the HSV/HSB model being the most common underlying representation. Advanced pickers may include an alpha slider, color space selectors, hex/RGB/HSL input fields, and an eyedropper tool for sampling colors from the screen. Browser-native color pickers are accessible via the HTML input type='color' element, though their appearance and capabilities vary across platforms.
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