Where are favorites stored?

In your browser's local storage for this site. They persist across visits and restarts, stay private to this machine, and vanish if you clear site data.

How is this different from the history picker?

History is automatic and rolling — the last dozen picks. Favorites are explicit and permanent until you remove them, which suits decided colors rather than recent ones.

Can I export my favorites?

Copy any swatch's hex straight from the strip; for a whole set heading into code, the CSS custom properties exporter or the token exporters format it properly.

Is there a limit on how many I can save?

The strip is meant for a short working set and stays one row; the storage limit of local storage is far beyond anything a favorites strip would hold.

Why keep favorites instead of relying on the recent list?

Recent colors age out and reshuffle no matter how important they are, while favorites change only when you change them. A saved set stays put until it is removed, which is what a brand fill or a project neutral needs.

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The color picker with favorites is a standard picker plus a bookmark strip: save the colors you decide to keep and they stay one click away.

What is Color Picker with Favorites?

A history answers what did I use lately; favorites answer what have I decided on. The color picker with favorites is the same comfortable picker with a persistent strip attached — when a value matters, you save it, and it sits beside the picker from then on, in this browser, across sessions, immune to the churn of exploration. Click a saved swatch to make it current; the large preview confirms you grabbed the right one before you copy it anywhere.

The distinction from history is deliberate and worth stating:

Recent colors age out and reshuffle no matter how important they were.
Favorites are a curated set that changes only when you change it, which makes this the right home for the short list that actually drives a project — the brand fill, the two neutrals every card sits on, the success and error accents.
The strip persists in local storage, so the set is still there next week and after a restart, yet it stays private to your machine, which is what client work wants from a bookmark color palette.

In day-to-day use the tool collapses a common loop: rather than keeping a sticky note of approved hexes and pasting them into a picker one at a time, the approved set is the picker. Exploration happens as usual in the field, and the moment a candidate is chosen, saving it promotes it from candidate to citizen. When a decision needs to leave your machine — into a stylesheet, a token file, a ticket — the exporters hand off cleanly, turning saved values into CSS custom properties or design tokens with the names they deserve.

Favourites are the bridge between hunting and shipping. A colour found in a moodboard screenshot is a curiosity; the same colour saved with one tap is a candidate, and the gap between a candidate and a decision is usually just a short list in front of you. Keeping that list inside the picker removes the detour through a notes app or a scratch file, and it means save favorite colors happens at the moment of judgement, while the swatch is under the cursor and the comparison is still fresh, rather than an hour later from memory.

The strip also outlives the tab, so keep favorite swatches is durable rather than cosmetic: the set curated yesterday is the palette you start from today, one click each to re-select, compare or hand to the exporters when the moment to formalise arrives. It is worth clearing occasionally, because a bookmark strip that only grows stops being a short list and starts being a filing problem.

What it does not try to be is a palette manager:

There are no projects, no tags and no sharing links — one flat set of favorite swatches for one person's browser.
The strip stays a single row, so it suits a short working set rather than a filing system that only grows.
Structure around many palettes belongs to the palette locker and the token exporters, which are the next rung up.

For keeping favorite swatches within reach while you work, a picker with a bookmark strip is exactly the right size.

How to use Color Picker with Favorites

Pick a color as usual with the field or native picker.
Save it to the favorites strip when it is a keeper.
Click any saved swatch later to make it the current color again.

When to use Color Picker with Favorites vs related tools

Use this when a small set of approved colors should stay within reach across sessions. Use the history picker when you want automatic recall of recent picks instead of a curated set, and the palette locker when the unit of work is a whole palette rather than individual colors. Use the history picker when automatic recall of recent picks is enough, the palette locker when the unit of work is a whole palette, and the CSS custom properties exporter when a saved set has to reach code.

Privacy & Security

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data ever leaves your device. There is no server round-trip, no upload, no logging, and no account required. Your input is processed locally using client-side JavaScript and is never stored, transmitted, or accessible to anyone else. When you close the tab, everything disappears.