What CSS Colors

Shows the colors of a site by parsing its CSS resources (dedicated sidebar pane in DevTools).
What is What CSS Colors?
What CSS Colors is a Chrome extension that helps you keep track of the colors declared in the CSS resources of your website. By parsing the CSS code, it creates a color index based on RGB values, allowing you to easily browse and understand the use of colors in your site's design.

Extension stats

Users: 181 ▼ -6
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2021-03-17)
Creation date: 2020-02-01
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 40.24K

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Extension summary

As someone with the responsibility to keep tidy the UX of your site(s), have you ever wondered what exact colors are declared its CSS resources? After an initial set of colors being defined in the beginning, changes in specifications, team members rotation and customer feedback make way for new colors to appear in CSS files.

Thus, over time it becomes more difficult to know exactly which colors are declared in CSS code or why there are so many similar colors. Keeping your style guide updated is harder and it begins to loose value, because it doesn't reflect the effective use of colors.

What CSS Colors helps prevent that. By parsing the CSS code of your site, it builds an index of colors based on RGB values found. By clicking on a colour thumbnail, it's possible to browse the CSS code to see where it's used.

This extension appears in DevTools, as new sidebar pane called "CSS Color" under the "Elements" tab.

Note 1: color indexation is performed on different values of Red, Green and Blue components; the Alpha component doesn't count as a distinct color.

Note 2: only colors in CSS files referred by the page are indexed.

Extension safety

Risk impact

What CSS Colors requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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