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Learn Pocket CVI in minutes

Guides & walkthroughs

Eleven short, practical guides — from your first pick to importing a brand from its website and generating a design manual.

012 min

Pick a color from anywhere on your screen

Sample any pixel on any display with a round magnifier loupe — one color or several in a row — and grab it in your format.

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024 min

Build your first brand kit

Turn a collection into a full brand sheet with colors, notes, a logo, and fonts.

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032 min

Generate a 5-role brand palette with AI

Produce a complete Primary-to-Background palette from a base color — or from a written brief.

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042 min

Extract a palette from an image

Pull the dominant colors out of any photo or artwork in seconds.

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052 min

Document your CVI with rich-text notes

Capture brand rules, tone, and do's & don'ts right on top of the collection they describe.

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062 min

Check color contrast for accessibility

Compare two colors against WCAG-style contrast to keep text readable for everyone.

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073 min

Share a brand kit with a teammate

Export a whole collection to a single .pocketcvi file and let anyone import it.

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083 min

Keep everything in sync and capture colors as you copy

Sync your whole library — files included — across your Macs, and auto-collect colors from your clipboard.

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093 min

Import a whole brand from a website

Point Pocket CVI at a URL and get a ready-made kit: colors, logos, fonts, screenshots — and with your AI key, even the official brand guidelines.

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103 min

Connect your own AI (Claude, ChatGPT, or a local model)

Unlock the AI features with Pro, then run them on your own Claude or ChatGPT key — or a self-hosted model. Your data goes straight to your provider.

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113 min

Generate a design manual from your kit

Turn any collection into a multi-page A4 brand manual — instantly, or written and typeset by AI in the brand's own fonts.

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