Color Picker is one of the smaller utilities in PowerToys, just like Awake, and while I am not particularly a fan of the latter, as discussed here, I do think Color Picker is one of the better toys ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...

Developer John Calhoun tells the story of working on the Mac color picker in the mid-1990s, including how he independently added the crayon color picker without any oversight from design or marketing.