Utilities / SL-UTIL-05

TINKER

Designer's toolbox

Three instruments for people who squint at pixels.

A native macOS menu bar suite for designers, in three parts: DROPPER for precision colour sampling, MEASURE for measuring anything on screen, and GLYPH for finding and copying Unicode characters.

$5 USD · one-time · provisional
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In development v1.0

Specification

What it
actually does.

Only features in the current build are listed. Nothing here is a roadmap dressed up as a feature.

  1. 01

    DROPPER

    Precision colour sampling with an aviation-inspired animated targeting reticle, palette extraction and colour harmonies.

  2. 02

    MEASURE

    Screen measurement in six modes.

  3. 03

    GLYPH

    A Unicode browser with quick copy and a scratch composer for assembling characters.

Footage

Screenshots & demos

Capture 01Footage pending
Capture 02Footage pending
Demo reelFootage pending

Real screenshots, GIFs and demo video will be published here from the shipping build. The lab doesn’t mock up interfaces it hasn’t shipped.

Requirements

PlatformmacOS (menu bar app)
Built withSwift · SwiftUI · AppKit — native, no Electron
Minimum macOSTo be confirmed at release
NetworkNot required

Version log

Current build: v1.0. Release notes are published with the first public build.

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$5 USD · one-time · provisional
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In development v1.0

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