Microsoft PowerToys is one of the best tools I have ever used for picking colors and taking color formats and their strings. When we start designing our reports in Power BI Desktop, the first step is having the right colors in our pallet for creating themes.
How we can bring colors from companies’ websites, logos, pictures, etc.. related to our reports?
There are so many ways to do this but one of the best ways is using PowerToys.
To get started, download and install PowerToys using this link. Once you have it installed, make sure you have it open in the background.

To use PowerToys to pick any color, you can utilize the default shortcut “Win + Shift + C”. This will allow you to pick any element on your screen to get its color. When you choose an element, you will see the color format and their string representation as below:

Color formats that PowerToys supports :
HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, etc.. and Power BI is comfortable with the HEX color format.

If you want to change the default shortcut, simply open PowerToys, and from the Color Picker section, click on the edit icon to change the shortcut as you need:

For more information about Microsoft power toy, please visit here.

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