What Colour Is It?

Display the time in glorious HEXIDECIMAL colour in new tabs.
What is What Colour Is It??
What Colour Is It? is a Chrome extension that converts the current time to a six-digit hexadecimal color. It displays the time in glorious color on new tabs.

Extension stats

Users: 200 ▼ -1
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2015-01-10)
Creation date: 2015-01-09
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 116.74K

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Extension summary

Converts the current time to a six digit hexidecimal colour. Original concept and code by J.E.Murphy (jemurphy.org) - Rewritten and turned into a Chrome extension by Jonic Linley (100yen.co.uk).

User reviews

I love it! Interesting patterns due to the interaction of RGB with HHMMSS and hex. Pretty colours. It often matches my couch. It makes me happy when I open a new tab. Thanks for this :)
by Heather Piwowar, 2020-02-25

Pretty snazzy
by A H, 2015-01-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact

What Colour Is It? requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

What Colour Is It? has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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