Get The Hex Value of a Color

If you use Illustrator for web design and the colors you choose are to be used the final implementation, it’s a good idea to know how to find the hexadecimal versions of your colored objects. Illustrator does let you work directly with web colors but if you need that hex value, theres not way to copy it from an object… quickly.
The way to do it is, select the object then double click the fill or stroke color. This will bring up the standard Adobe color dialog, which shows all the various values of this color. The one you want is the the field with “#” as the label. Select and copy it to the clipboard.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Adobe really screwed up the color palette in CS4. I can’t find a way to get (or enter) the hex color in CS4. Know of a way?
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 am
I haven’t picked up CS4 just yet (very soon though), but it should work more or less the same. The link is about the color picker in CS4.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-628ca.html
Adobe however should provide a simple way to copy the color.