CLR Converter

Extract text from CLR files


Drop or upload your .CLR file
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How to extract text from your CLR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CLR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert CLR to another file type

To convert your CLR file to another format, you need Apple macOS or other Settings software.

  • CLR to INI
  • CLR to CFG
  • CLR to CONF
  • CLR to CONFIG
  • CLR to JSON
  • CLR to XML
  • CLR to YAML
  • CLR to YML
  • CLR to TOML
  • CLR to ENV
  • CLR to PROPERTIES
  • CLR to RC

Convert a file to CLR

To convert other file formats to the "Color Palette File" file type, you need software like Apple macOS or a similar tool.

  • ZSHRC to CLR
  • CONF to CLR
  • RCFILE to CLR
  • GITCONFIG to CLR
  • RC to CLR
  • PLIST to CLR
  • BASHRC to CLR
  • CONFIG to CLR
  • PROFILE to CLR
  • INI to CLR
  • PREFS to CLR
  • CFG to CLR

About CLR files

A .CLR file is most frequently an Apple Color List, a proprietary system file used within the macOS ecosystem to store named color palettes. These files allow applications like Sketch and Apple Keynote to maintain consistent branding schemes via the native color picker. However, because the format is often tied to the binary NSColorList class within the Apple AppKit framework, these files are virtually useless on Windows or Linux systems. Designers often hit a wall when trying to share these palettes with web developers or Adobe users, as standard text editors cannot parse the binary data, and Adobe Photoshop does not natively ingest them. To bridge this gap, users should convert .CLR files to cross-platform formats: JSON or CSS for web implementation, ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) for Creative Cloud interoperability, or standard XML for archiving.

Note: A minority of .CLR files are GIS Color Maps used by software like Global Mapper or QGIS to define elevation tinting. These are simple text files but are incompatible with design software.

Convert.Guru analyzes your CLR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted CRL, CDR, XLSX, ASE, JPG, PRV, FNC and ATM files.



The CLR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CLR converter.