Huey

Huey is an artist-focused utility that turns photos, swatches, and physical supplies into accurate digital color resources to simplify your creative workflow. With Huey you can extract precise palettes from photographs, build custom swatch sets from watercolor or pencil samples, and use an AR Trace Camera to project images for sketching or to preview colors on physical coloring pages before marking them permanently. Designed by an artist for artists, Huey combines color matching, palette management, and straightforward tools so creators spend less time guessing and more time making.

Key Features

⭐ AR Trace Camera projects images onto your workspace for tracing and composition reference.

⭐ Photograph physical coloring pages and color them digitally to experiment before altering the original.

⭐ Precision color picker extracts accurate palettes from photos, swatches, and real-world samples.

⭐ Build and manage custom palettes from any medium—watercolor, pencils, markers—and save reusable swatch sets.

⭐ Match colors to an art supply library, select from supported marker sets, or create your own custom set.

Advantages

✅ Streamlines studio workflow so you can move faster from reference to finished work.

✅ Preserve original paper by testing and adjusting colors digitally first.

✅ Precise palette extraction and color matching help maintain consistency across projects and media.

✅ Includes support for many popular marker sets (Ohuhu, Arrtx, Copic, Caliart, Decotime, Bianyo) and lets you define custom sets if needed.

Disadvantages

❎ If your exact supply set isn't preloaded you may need to create a custom set manually.

❎ Accuracy of palette extraction and AR projection can depend on photo quality, lighting, and device camera performance.

Development Team

Huey was developed by an artist aiming to bridge the gap between digital tools and physical media, focusing on practical features that reflect real studio needs.