What the Color: Identifier

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Point your camera at anything and know its color instantly. What the Color identifies, names, and speaks the colors around you — built for people with color vision deficiency, and useful for anyone who needs to name a color with confidence. IDENTIFY COLORS IN REAL TIME • Tap anywhere on the live camera view to identify the color at that exact point • Drag the crosshair to explore — the result updates as you move • Pinch to zoom for pixel-precise picking, and turn on the torch in low light • Import photos from your library and pick colors from any pixel ACCURATE NAMES YOU CAN TRUST • A curated database of over 200 named colors, organized into color families • Perceptual matching (Delta E in CIELAB) finds the closest human-recognizable name • A confidence score tells you how exact the match is • HEX and RGB values for every sample MADE FOR COLOR BLINDNESS • Choose from 8 vision profiles: protanopia, protanomaly, deuteranopia, deuteranomaly, tritanopia, tritanomaly, and achromatopsia • Personal confusion warnings: the app flags colors you are likely to mix up with your profile — with practical tips on how to tell them apart • Full VoiceOver support throughout the app HEAR YOUR COLORS • Optional speech output announces every color name out loud • Include confusion warnings in the spoken result if you want them TRUE COLORS IN ANY LIGHT • Guided white-balance calibration keeps names accurate indoors, outdoors, and under artificial light • Live feedback tells you when a sample is too dark or overexposed SAVE AND ORGANIZE • Bookmark colors, add notes, and search by name or HEX • Sort by date, name, or hue — and export your collection as JSON Whether you are matching clothes, checking a ripe fruit, reading a chart, shopping, or simply curious — What the Color gives you a fast, reliable answer to one question: what color is this?