EyeDropper API Dropped

Chrome 95 Canary Adds the EyeDropper API

Chrome has quietly shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary) — a nifty new tool that lets web apps pick colors from anywhere on the screen. That includes areas outside the browser window itself, which is a notable upgrade for design tools like Figma, where color sampling has historically been limited to the app’s own workspace.

Developer Andrew Walpole has already put it to use in a demo that pairs the EyeDropper API with petite-vue, a lightweight variant of Vue designed for direct browser use without a build step. The result is an impressively clean, interactive app implementation.

petite-vue is gaining traction as a no-frills framework option, drawing commentary from developers like Dave Rupert and Andrew Welch. For those who prefer minimal tooling, it could easily become a go-to choice.