Hi James,
There are several dialogs with a square "color well" showing the current color of something, and you can just click the color well to bring up the system color editor. In the color editor (system-dependent as to how exactly it looks) there is generally some way to see the hex code or RGBA values of the color.
If it's the whole-model color, you can click the color well in the Models list. Or if it is some specific residue's ribbon segment or specific atom, you can select that ribbon segment or atom, and then open the Selection Inspector and inspect that kind of item (Atoms, Residues, etc.) properties to show the corresponding color well. You can open the Selection Inspector with menu: Actions... Inspect, or click the green magnifying glass icon in the Home toolbar which is normally across the top of the window.
I'm on a Mac so when I click a color well I get something like what is shown in the attached screenshot.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
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There are several dialogs with a square "color well" showing the current color of something, and you can just click the color well to bring up the system color editor. In the color editor (system-dependent as to how exactly it looks) there is generally some way to see the hex code or RGBA values of the color.
If it's the whole-model color, you can click the color well in the Models list. Or if it is some specific residue's ribbon segment or specific atom, you can select that ribbon segment or atom, and then open the Selection Inspector and inspect that kind of item (Atoms, Residues, etc.) properties to show the corresponding color well. You can open the Selection Inspector with menu: Actions... Inspect, or click the green magnifying glass icon in the Home toolbar which is normally across the top of the window.
I'm on a Mac so when I click a color well I get something like what is shown in the attached screenshot.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
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> On Jun 13, 2025, at 7:29 AM, Walshe, James via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> Is there an easy way to get the color code for a model? Or a specific chain of that model?
> Let’s say I really like the default colors a model is loaded with and I want to find the exact hexa color code for each chain?
> Thanks!
> Dr James Walshe | Postdoctoral Researcher | Cramer Group
> Department of Molecular Biology | Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences | Am Fassberg 11
> 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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