Native add-in for Revit 2025–2027

Pick any colour.
Read it on the ribbon.

Click Pick-It, then click any pixel on any monitor. The button turns into that colour and shows its red, green and blue values, ready to type into any Revit colour dialog.

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Per-user install
No admin rights required
MIT licensed

A real recording in Revit 2026, using Autodesk’s Snowdon Towers sample project. No sound.

Any pixel, any monitorRevit views, images, PDFs, web pages

RGB on the buttonThe colour stays until you pick again

Three Revit years2025, 2026, and 2027 in one MSI

One button. One job.

The colour you see, in numbers.

Revit’s colour dialogs ask for red, green and blue. Pick-It gets those three numbers from anything on your screen and keeps them in view while you work.

A screen eyedropper

Pick from anywhere on screen, not only from Revit: a reference image, a brand guide, a consultant’s PDF, or a view in another window.

What it does

A magnifier for the exact pixel

The screen freezes while you pick. A magnifier shows the pixel under the pointer with its RGB and hex values before you click.

How picking works

The icon is the readout

After a pick, the ribbon icon is filled with the colour and shows R, G and B in black or white, whichever reads better. The tooltip adds the hex code.

Icon behaviour

Recent colours

Shift-click the button for your last ten picks. Click one to make it the current colour again. They are kept between Revit sessions.

The Shift menu

Add to Revit’s palette

Store the current colour in one of the 16 custom-colour slots of Revit’s own Color dialog, so it is one click away wherever Revit asks for a colour.

Add to palette

Light and dark themes

The idle icon and the menu follow Revit’s light or dark theme and switch with it. Pick-It also works with no project open.

See it in dark

From screen to ribbon

One colour. Three clicks.

There is no window to manage and nothing to set up. The button on the Add-Ins tab is the whole interface.

1
Click Pick-It

Open Revit’s Add-Ins tab and click the Pick-It button. The screen is frozen so nothing moves while you choose.
2
Click a pixel

Move the magnifier over the colour you want and click. Esc or a right-click cancels and keeps the colour you had.
3
Read the values

The button now shows the colour and its R, G and B values. It stays that way, across Revit sessions, until you pick again or clear it.

Revit’s Add-Ins tab with the idle Pick-It button, a blue eyedropper on a grey tile, above an open sheet — Before a pick: the Pick-It button on the Add-Ins tab

The Pick-It magnifier over a rendering of a brick facade, showing an enlarged pixel grid, a swatch, RGB 147, 116, 74 and its hex code — Mid-pick: the magnifier with RGB and hex values

The Pick-It menu under the ribbon button: the current colour with its RGB and hex values, ten recent colours in two rows, Clear, Clear history, and Add to palette — Shift-click the button for the menu

Small menu. Useful memory.

Your last ten colours, one click away.

Every pick is remembered automatically. Hold Shift and click the button to get them back.

The last 10 picks, newest first
Click a swatch to make it the current colour
Clear resets the icon; Clear history empties the list
Works from the keyboard with arrows, Tab, Enter and Esc

Read about the menu

Into Revit’s own Color dialog

Keep a colour in Revit’s palette.

Add to palette… shows Revit’s 16 custom colours as the Color dialog lays them out. Click a slot and Pick-It stores the current colour there.

The colour is there the next time Revit asks for one
An occupied slot is replaced; the menu confirms the result
Revit keeps its custom colours when it closes normally

How the palette write works

From the Shift menu to Revit’s Color dialog. A real recording, no sound.

The Add to palette view: Revit’s custom colours in two rows of eight, with the pointer over slot 11 — 1. Choose a slot

The Add to palette view after a click: slot 12 shows the new colour and the menu reads Saved to slot 12 — 2. Pick-It confirms the slot

Revit’s Color dialog with the picked magenta in the third custom colour of the second row, selected, reading Red 220, Green 24, Blue 163 — 3. The colour in Revit’s Color dialog

Revit 2027 in its dark theme with the Pick-It menu open, showing a light blue current colour and seven recent colours — Pick-It in Revit 2027’s dark theme

At home in Revit

Follows your theme.

Pick-It uses Revit’s light or dark theme for its idle icon and its menu, and changes when you switch. Your current colour and recent colours are shared by every Revit version you have installed.

Light and dark ribbon icons
One list of recent colours for Revit 2025, 2026 and 2027
No project needs to be open

Clear by design

Install once. Pick straight away.

Run the MSI, restart Revit, and choose Always Load when Revit asks about the add-in. Pick-It installs for your Windows account only and needs no administrator rights.

Read the installation guide

What it doesPicking, the icon, and the Shift menu InstallPer-user MSI for Revit 2025, 2026 and 2027 Product and design briefAgreed behaviour and the Designs/OS design language For developersRepository layout and build configurations

Ready when you are

Put the colour on the ribbon.

Get Pick-It for Revit 2025, 2026, and 2027. One per-user MSI installs the add-in for every supported Revit year it finds.

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Pick any colour.Read it on the ribbon.