Color Dictionary and Scanner


Color Dictionary and Scanner
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Description

This is a great color dictionary. Using this app, color name and color data; (RGB, HSV) are found out easily and speedy. This app contains over 700 named colors.

This app provide 4 way to find out color. All of them are quite easy.

1. Scanning by Camera.
Just to point camera of your iPhone or iPod touch to the color which you want to know. Immediately, the color name, RGV value, and HSV value is shown on the display and will be updated on time.
Also the app provide list of all colors that are captured by camera, and the list is ordered by the time, the latest captured color is on the first.

2. Picking up from Image data in your Photo Library of iPhone / iPod touch.
You can investigate colors on Photos or Pictures saved into iPhone. This is also easy. Select picture, then fit the area of the color which you want to examine to center square by zoom by pinch and drag action.


3. Looking up colors in all color list.
Over 700 colors this app contains are able to be seen by the list style. Word search is also available. For example,with the search by word "red", the app show you 11 colors which contain "red" in their color name.


4. Specifying color space value.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue) value or HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) value is set, soon color name search result will be shown to you. Each value can be entered by Integer value, which is regularly used. For example RGB is expressed Integer value from 0 to 255. Also, a decimal expression from 0.0 to 1.0, which stands for proportion against max value.
RGB and HSV, and integer expression and decimal expression are converting with only one tap action instantly each other. So this facility is also able to be used as calcurator for converting them.

The detail view for each named color, which can be called from many place in the app provides "color name", "RGB value", "HSV value", and HEML expression. HTML expression is the string joined with 2 figures of each of hexadecimal RGB.

This app contains many Japanese named colors. Unless your device language is Japanese, color names are only written alphabetically. However you can select to show both of alphabetical expression and the expression using Japanese characters. This app is also good for learning Japanese language, which has wide color expression.

What's New in Version 1.3

By this update, following actions will be available.

・to Copy HTML color value string (like: #00ff32) to clipboard from "color detail" view.
・to Search colors with HTML color value string from in-app color dictionary. Just input HTML string to search bar on the top of "color library" view. ( Don't forget start HTML color value string with "#".)
・to Search colors with Hexadecimal Integer value of RGB. Also it is available to converting Hexadecimal Integer value of RGB and Decimal Integer, decimal fraction of RGB, HSV, and CMYK, vice versa.

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