This mini color sensor works on almost any surface

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Scan all the colors of the rainbow with this little color sensor.
This portable color sensor can scan almost anything.
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Sometimes you need to paint away a ding on your wall or identify which shade of red the flowers outside your window are. Home improvement, art or plain curiosity — there are a ton of reasons it’s great to have something around that can definitively tell you what color you’re looking at.

The Nix Mini 2 color sensor scans and identifies colors and gives you paint suggestions and the codes to find your color digitally. During our Spring Refresh promo, you can get a Nix Mini 2 for $73.95 (regularly $99) with coupon code SPRING10.

Identify any color

Rated 5/5 stars by verified purchasers, this portable color scanner is a visual worker’s best friend. If you’re on a job and need to know what color paint is currently on a client’s wall, pull out your little color scanner and get answers fast. Someone might know the color their walls originally were, but Nix can connect to more than 100,000 brand-name paint colors and give you a recommendation based on the color of the walls right now.

That’s exactly what one 5-star reviewer did: “We used the Nix to match paint over drywall repairs. It worked very well, a pleasant surprise, since the old paint had changed slightly (oxidized) from one repair location to another.”

Nix Mini can scan virtually any surface: vinyl, leather, plastic, fabric, dyes and a lot more. If you’re drawing a self-portrait in Photoshop, you can scan the shirt you’re wearing and instantly get the sRGB HEX, CMYK and LAB colors to match.

Totally portable, this lightweight little color scanner works via Bluetooth and can give you instant results when you scan something interesting. You don’t have to try to remember to find the color of someone’s leather jacket when you try to draw it later.

And the results you get are remarkably accurate. Nix Mini blocks out all ambient light and provides its own calibrated light source whenever it scans. You also don’t have to be afraid of taking your Nix color scanner on adventures, because its solid-state build can take a beating. Scan a beautiful stone by your campsite in one moment, then use the app to share the color with your friends on social media in the next.

Save on Nix Mini color sensor

See the true colors of the world in the best way. Get the Nix Mini 2 on sale for $73.95 (regularly $99) with coupon code SPRING10.

Prices subject to change.

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