What is Tangerine

Tangerine color management software provides graphic designers and creative professionals with a unique color workflow experience. Now you can have the color you want, when you want it, how you want it. Tangerine offers new and enhanced color support to OS X.

What can I do with Tangerine?

• With Tangerine you can effortlessly move and use color schemes across applications.
• Tangerine’s universal color palette system gives you color consistency and uninterrupted workflows. Forget about building and maintaining separate color palettes for each application you work with. Just input a color onto the Tangerine palette and it will be available to use wherever it’s needed.
• In the realm of the computer, color is not always used in the visual form. Unique to Tangerine is the ability to transform a visual color into a variety of programming language color syntax. So, if you’re into programming or web development on the Mac, you can now insert color syntax straight into your code with a single mouse click. Perfect for when you’re having to mock up an interface in a graphics application then recreate it in code.
• Keeping track of colors can be a thankless, time-consuming task. Tangerine takes care of that too. Like the perfect assistant working quietly in the background, it orders and files all your color schemes so they can be retrieved with ease whenever you need them again.
• Any color held in Tangerine can be modified. That means you can edit its color component values, its color model or its color profile. In addition, Tangerine keeps track of information about a color’s properties, its source and the dates on which it was created, last modified and last used.
• With Tangerine you can export palettes out to file and distribute them to your colleagues, clients and friends – what better way to ensure color consistency when working on team projects. What’s more, you can now backup your color schemes so you’ll be sure to always have them when you need them next.

How does it work?

Tangerine employs two methods that allow you to access colors and palettes within your applications – the Palette window and the Tangerine Color Picker. Combined, these two methods provide widespread color management coverage in OS X. And because Tangerine runs in the background, it’s accessible at almost anytime.

The Palette window is the main window in Tangerine. It provides customised integration into applications supported by Tangerine. For more information see Introducing the Palette Window.

The Tangerine Color Picker seamlessly integrates with Apple’s Colors panel that is used by thousands of third party applications. For more information see Introducing the Tangerine Color Picker.