Hi. So, there’s a short lag in Color Picker (Ctrl+C) between when it appears and when it actually starts working. The simpler the doc the shorter the lag. Here, please check the video — CleanShot 22-02-2025 at 19-35 · CleanShot Cloud.
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…I checked both with plugins and macros (Keyboard Maestro) active and disabled, no difference.
Hi Eugene,
When you press ⌃C, you’ll instantly see the Color Picker UI and at the same time, your doc is being processed to be able to actually sample its colors. That’s the small lag you see. As your doc gets more complex the lag may increase, but it depends how complex the document is visually and effects wise.
Thanks for sharing your report 
Hey Jorge. Yeah, I get that but it becomes so annoying at times. Like, I hit Ctrl+C and then I remember to just wait for a second (I measured) while Sketch’s taking a breath. It shouldn’t be this slow.
We can definitely improve here, no doubt. The team has explored ways to make it happen but we haven’t got to working on it yet
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We’ve been experiencing this a ton as well for several years. It used to be the cursor freezing but a few updates ago the cursor started being responsive, but it takes several seconds before we start seeing the HEX tooltip appear + being able to click. It looks like we’ve just transferred the delay from the cursor to the color selection.
I hope you’re able to address this soon!
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