> ## Documentation Index
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# otter-pick

> Pick screen colors in hex, RGB, and OKLCH. Click to copy, or pass coordinates for scripted sampling.

otter-pick is Otter Shell's screen color picker. It opens a frozen overlay with a magnifying loupe. Click a pixel to copy its hex, RGB, and OKLCH values. Pass `--x` and `--y` for scripted sampling.

## Usage

Run `otter-pick` without arguments for the interactive overlay, or pass `--x` and `--y` to sample a screen coordinate.

```bash theme={null}
otter-pick                       # frozen overlay, loupe: click to copy hex
otter-pick --x 120 --y 80        # sample global Wayland coordinate
otter-pick --x -10 --y 80        # negative coords work for left-of-primary outputs
otter-pick --loupe --x 1 --y 2   # print 5x5 ANSI loupe for scripted sampling
otter-pick --no-copy             # print values only, no clipboard
otter-pick --hex '#336699'       # offline conversion / test
```

## Output

otter-pick prints the sampled color in three formats, one per line.

```
#336699
rgb(51, 102, 153)
oklch(44.9% 0.083 249.1)
```

## Configuration

otter-pick reads `~/.config/otter-shell/otter-pick.conf`.

```conf theme={null}
copy = true
loupe = false
```

* `copy`: set to `false` to skip clipboard writes by default
* `loupe`: set to `true` to always render the ANSI loupe instead of opening the overlay

<Note>
  Requires `ext-image-copy-capture-v1` from the compositor. The loupe uses the
  same capture path as otter-screenshot.
</Note>