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Best Chrome extensions for designers

Chrome extensions for designers speed up everyday tasks like inspecting a layout, grabbing a color or capturing a full page. Our top pick is GoFullPage: it captures an entire scrolling page as one image in a single click, which makes it useful for saving reference designs and sharing full-page mockups with a team.

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Our picks

  1. GoFullPage

    Capture a full-page screenshot in one click.

    Freemium Screenshots & Recording ✓ No account needed

  2. ColorZilla

    Eyedropper and color picker for any pixel.

    Free Design ✓ No account needed

  3. WhatFont

    Hover to identify any web font.

    Free Design ✓ No account needed

Designers spend a lot of time inspecting other people's websites: checking a color, identifying a typeface, or saving a full page for reference. Chrome's built-in tools do not cover any of this well. A handful of small extensions put color picking, font identification and full-page capture one click away, without opening design software.

Capture a full page for reference

A screenshot tool that only grabs the visible window misses everything below the fold. GoFullPage scrolls the page automatically and stitches it into one image, so you can save a competitor's landing page or a long article layout in one file. This is faster than piecing together multiple screenshots by hand.

Pick a color from any pixel

ColorZilla adds an eyedropper that reads the exact color of any pixel on a page, then gives you the hex or RGB value ready to paste into design software. It also has a color picker history, which helps when you need to match several colors from the same site across a project.

Identify fonts on the web

WhatFont lets you hover over any text on a page to see the font family, size and weight it uses. This removes the guesswork of matching a typeface by eye, which matters when a client references a competitor's site and asks you to use a similar look.

Best Chrome extensions for designers: FAQs

What are the best Chrome extensions for designers?

GoFullPage, ColorZilla and WhatFont cover the most common needs: full-page screenshots, color picking and font identification. Together they let a designer inspect and reference any website without leaving the browser.

What is the best Chrome extension for UI/UX designers?

GoFullPage is a strong starting point for UX designers because it captures entire page layouts, including scrolling sections, in one image for reference boards or client presentations.

How do I pick a color from a webpage in Chrome?

Install a color picker extension such as ColorZilla, click its icon, then click any pixel on the page. It shows the hex and RGB value instantly and keeps a history of recently picked colors.

How can I find out what font a website uses?

Install WhatFont, click its icon to activate it, then hover over any text. It displays the font family, size and weight without needing to open the browser's developer tools.

Is GoFullPage free to use?

GoFullPage has a free tier that covers full-page screenshot capture. Some advanced features are part of a paid plan, so check the current listing for what is included free.

Do these design extensions work for web designers as well as graphic designers?

Yes. Full-page capture, color picking and font identification are useful to web designers inspecting live sites and to graphic designers referencing layouts, colors and typography for offline work.

Can I capture only part of a page instead of the whole thing?

Most full-page screenshot tools, including GoFullPage, let you select a specific area or the visible viewport instead of the entire scrolling page, so you are not limited to one capture mode.

Are Chrome extensions for designers safe to install?

Extensions that only need to read the active page, such as color pickers and screenshot tools, are lower risk than ones asking for access to browsing history. Check each extension's permissions before installing.

Do color picker extensions work on local files or only live websites?

Most color pickers work on any page rendered in the browser, including local HTML files, as long as you enable the extension's permission to access file URLs in chrome://extensions.

What is the difference between ColorZilla and Chrome's built-in eyedropper?

Chrome has a basic eyedropper built into some input fields, but ColorZilla adds a persistent color history, a page color analyzer and gradient tools that the built-in version does not offer.

Do these extensions work in Edge or Brave for designers?

GoFullPage, ColorZilla and WhatFont are available from the Chrome Web Store and generally install in Chromium-based browsers such as Edge and Brave, since they share the same extension system.

Can I use these extensions without creating an account?

ColorZilla and WhatFont work without an account. GoFullPage's core capture feature also works without signing up, though an account may unlock extra storage or export options.