WordPress offers a built in way to create a color picker in the WordPress customizer. This is often used by themes to allow users to create unique color schemes for their site.

The default color picker includes a built in list of predefined colors to allow users to easily set a base color. This is very helpful as the picker with nearly unlimited options can be a bit daunting. However, these colors are set by WordPress and don’t always relate to the theme being used.
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