Colorpick is a color picker, which makes it easy to check text readability by letting you pick a background and foreground color and computing the contrast between them.

It lets you know if contrast is good enough according to http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#visual-audio-contrast.

It also comes with a handy magnified-picker, which you can control with the cursor keys, for precise picking.

Finally, it lets you adjust colors and copy them to the clipboard as different formats.

⚠ Currently, working only under X11 based systems; under Wayland the contrast checker is working, the color picker selector doesn't work yet. ⚠

• Qt 5/6 base

• CMake
• Qt Linguist Tools
• Qtilitools CMake modules
• Git (optional, to pull latest VCS checkouts)

CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is usually set to Release, though None might be a valid alternative.
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX has to be set to /usr on most operating systems.
By default, Qt5 is used for build, otherwise change it by adding -D PROJECT_QT_VERSION=6.

cmake -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -W no-dev
cmake --build build --verbose
DESTDIR="$(pwd)/package" cmake --install build

Using sudo make install is discouraged, instead use the system package manager where possible.

Translations was moved to qtilities-i18n organization for convenience.

To contribute language translations, you can use Qt Linguist and/or manually:

• Copy translations/colorpick.ts language template to translations/colorpick_<country-code>.ts, e.g.: colorpick_de.ts
• Set the language in the file: from <TS version="2.1"> to <TS version="2.1" language="de">
• Copy translations/colorpick.desktop.yaml language template to translations/colorpick_<your_country_code>.desktop.yaml, e.g.: colorpick_de.desktop.yaml
• Translate them (see existing translations for reference).
• Create a Pull Request with your changes.

See the AUTHORS file.

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