Huey

Huey is a mobile app that helps artists control and match colors between physical media and digital work. It combines tools for extracting palettes from photos, a precision color picker, and an AR Trace Camera to project images for sketching. Artists can photograph coloring pages to experiment with digital palettes before committing to paper, build custom swatches from watercolor, pencils or markers, and match shades to popular marker sets such as Ohuhu, Arrtx, Copic, Caliart, Decotime and Bianyo. Huey is useful for illustrators, hobbyists and studio artists who want faster, more confident color decisions and a tidier workflow.

Key Features

⭐ AR Trace Camera projects images onto your workspace so you can sketch and trace with precision.

⭐ Snap photos of physical coloring pages to color them digitally and test palettes before touching paper.

⭐ Precision color picker extracts exact colors from photos to build palettes from watercolor, pencil, ink or any medium.

⭐ Create, edit and save custom palettes, or match colors to popular marker sets like Ohuhu, Arrtx, Copic, Caliart, Decotime and Bianyo.

⭐ Huey's studio tools keep your color library organized and accessible on the go.

Advantages

✅ Huey reduces time spent guessing colors, helping you move from idea to final piece faster.

✅ Portable color control makes it easy to work across digital and physical media without switching tools.

✅ Support for common marker brands plus the ability to create your own sets suits both hobbyists and professionals.

✅ Intuitive interface and combined AR and photo tools streamline studio workflows.

Disadvantages

❎ Accurate color capture depends on camera quality and lighting, so results may vary in poor light.

❎ Not every brand is preloaded; unsupported marker sets must be added manually.

Development Team

Built by an artist for artists, the team behind Huey focused on practical studio problems and simple, tactile controls to bridge analog and digital workflows.