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The Menu Bar is the quickest access point for Sip. The icon on the left opens the Picker, while the arrow on the right opens Sip’s main menu. menu-bar-icon In Preferences, you can customize the Menu Bar Icon:
  • Choose a condensed version (just the Sip logo).
  • Decide whether the icon should fill with the last picked color for instant visual feedback.

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Sip Menu

The Sip menu is your everyday workspace. It includes:
  • The Toolbar for key actions.
  • The Palettes List to manage your colors.
  • The Bottom Bar for essential controls.
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Toolbar

menu-toolbar The Toolbar includes:
  • Picker for selecting one or multiple colors.
  • Contrast Checker for reviewing color contrast.
  • New Palette for creating a palette.
  • Color Panel for generating or adjusting colors.

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Palettes List

palettes-list The Palettes List groups your colors into palettes. Select a palette to open and manage its colors, then use the back button to return to the list.

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Color History

  • The top Palette is Color History, which stores all the colors you pick.
  • You can’t delete, rename, or reorder the Color History Palette, but you can clear its contents.
  • New colors are added in the order they were picked.

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Color Palette

Color Palettes help you organize colors into meaningful groups. There’s no limit to how many colors a Palette can hold, but you can’t have duplicates in the same Palette. select-palette When a Palette is selected, new colors you pick are added to both Color History and the selected Palette. A checkmark identifies the selected Palette.

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Palette Actions

Click the three-dot button (•••) to open the actions menu. Depending on the palette and current selection, actions include:
  • Clean History
  • Edit Palette
  • Duplicate
  • Export
  • Delete
  • Add to Color Dock or Remove from Color Dock
  • Lock Palette or Unlock Palette
  • Delete Duplicated Colors
  • Merge selected palettes
  • Ungroup grouped colors
hover-palette You can also:
  • Reorder Palettes by dragging vertically.
  • Hold ⌥ while dragging to duplicate a Palette.
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Organizing Colors

Drag and drop colors within a Palette to rearrange them, or drag colors between palettes to move them. To copy a color instead of moving it, hold ⌥ while dragging.
Normal drag moves colors. ⌥-drag copies colors and leaves the original color where it was.
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Bottom Bar

bottom-bar The Bottom Bar gives you quick access to:
  • Preferences
  • Color Blindness Settings
  • Main Window
  • Quit Sip