Pika

This beta introduces a new color preview mode that shows your foreground color on your background color, making it easy to see how your selected colors work together in context.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• Color preview mode — A floating preview pill shows sample text in your foreground color on your background color, so you can see at a glance how they pair together
• Preview toggle button — New eye icon in the toolbar to quickly toggle the preview on and off (also available via the P keyboard shortcut)

Updates and bug fixes<

Hot Scary Summer is a big one. Color history lands as the headline feature, giving you a scrolling drawer of your last 20 foreground/background pairs — tap any chip to restore both colors instantly. Alongside that, there's a new Help view, a greatly expanded pika:// URL scheme, a fix for color accuracy drift, and a pile of interface polish throughout.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• Color history — A horizontally-scrolling drawer shows your last 20 color pairs. Toggle it with the clock button in the toolbar or Cmd+Y. Tap a chip to restore both colors; right-click for options to apply foreground or background individually, swap and apply, remove, or clear all. The active chip highli

Beta 4 brings color history — a persistent timeline of every color pair you've picked, so you can pick freely without worrying about losing a combination you loved.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• Color history — Pika now keeps a scrollable history of up to 20 color pairs. Every time you pick a new color, it's automatically saved. Open the history drawer with H to browse your past picks as color chips, each showing the foreground and background together. Click any chip to restore both colors instantly, or right-click to apply just the foreground or background individuall

A small bug fix beta addressing colour values not updating when switching colour spaces in preferences.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates and bug fixes

• Colour space reactivity: Colour values now update immediately when changing the colour space preference, rather than requiring a hover to trigger a refresh.

This beta fixes an issue where picked colours could be inaccurate by a few values, depending on your display's colour profile.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates and bug fixes

• Improved colour accuracy — Pika now normalises all picked colours to sRGB immediately, fixing a bug where hex values could drift by 1–3 channels on wide-gamut displays (fixes #187)

Pika 1.4.1-beta1 is a maintenance release focused on code quality, improved animations, and better formatting across the board.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates and bug fixes

• Smoother hover animations — Improved button expand/collapse animations with cooldown and cancellation guards to prevent flicker
• Better OKLCH precision — Reduced chroma decimal places from 4 to 3 for cleaner output
• Improved LAB formatting — Added proper spacing to unformatted LAB output and fixed closing parenthesis formatting
• Code quality improvements

Pika 1.4.0 adds OKLCH as a brand new color format, along with a more compact UI for switching between formats.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• OKLCH color format — Added OKLCH (Oklab cylindrical) as the 7th color format option, with full sRGB → Linear RGB → LMS → Oklab → OKLCH conversion pipeline
• Compact format picker — Replaced the segmented format picker with a dropdown menu to accommodate the additional format

Updates and bug fixes

• Smaller minimum window width — Reduced from 570 to 480, taking advantage of the more compact picker
• Improved color space accuracy — Force sRGB color space in OKLCH

This beta fixes the toolbar format dropdown being clipped in the title bar, along with all the fixes from beta2.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates and bug fixes

• Toolbar dropdown clipping — Fixed the format picker and gear menu being cut off in the window title bar
• Format dropdown — Fixed the format picker in the toolbar truncating longer format names like OpenGL
• OKLCH and LAB color accuracy — Fixed incorrect color values when using non-sRGB color spaces like Display P3 or Adobe RGB
• Keyboard shortcut labels — Fixed swapp

This beta brings improvements to the new format dropdown and fixes for OKLCH color math.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates and bug fixes

• Format dropdown — Fixed the format picker in the toolbar truncating longer format names like OpenGL
• OKLCH and LAB color accuracy — Fixed incorrect color values when using non-sRGB color spaces like Display P3 or Adobe RGB
• Keyboard shortcut labels — Fixed swapped LAB and OpenGL labels in the keyboard shortcut grid
• LAB format guard — LAB format can no longer be selected via ke

1.3.1-beta1 adds support for the OKLCH color format, a perceptually uniform color space that's becoming the standard for modern CSS color work.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• OKLCH color format — Copy colors in OKLCH notation, a perceptually uniform color space ideal for modern CSS workflows

1.3.0 adds Croatian (thanks @milotype) and Polish (thanks @rkopicki) to Pika, and improves translations across all languages.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• Croatian localization
• Polish localization
• General internationalization improvements

Updates and bug fixes

• fixed a bug where the order of "LAB" and "OpenGL" menu items were incorrect