It will change its reading as you move your cursor over the screen - it measures the pixel at the tip of your cursor. Simply put, it measures the color of a particular pixel on your screen. I’m surprised more designers and developers don’t know about it, so I thought I’d try to rectify that situation. One of the secrets of the Mac OS, at least for web designers, is the utility called Digital Color Meter. Have you ever wanted to figure out the particular color of a piece of text, or a background, without having to sift through a CSS file, or open Photoshop to use its eye dropper tool?
