Screen Ruler 2D is a ruler for the desktop which measures in 2 dimensions (horizontal and vertical). Furthermore, an integrated color picker shows the color under the selected corner mark in different color systems and the window information panel provides technical information about the underlying window (3 in 1). Additionally, a built-in magnifier and the direct positioning aids allow to position the ruler pixel accurately simply and fast.
Features:
- Translucent 2-dimensional ruler wich can be adjusted horizontal and vertical in size and positioned anywhere on the screen.
- At each edge of the rectangular ruler scalable guides are available.
- Display of width and height of the adjusted ruler (pixel).
- Display of the positions of all ruler edges with regard to the desktop coordinates.
- Positioning aids (buttons) enabling to move or extend/shrink the ruler by one pixel to each side.
- Positioning of ruler by buttons or cursor keys (right, left, top, down).
- Extending of ruler by buttons or cursor keys (shift + right, left, top, down).
- Shrinking of ruler by buttons or cursor keys (ctrl + right, left, top, down).
- Magnifier for accurate positioning of the ruler at each of the four corners.
- Color picker at the selected corner of the ruler in four different color systems: RGB Values (Red/Green/Blue), HSL Values (Hue/Saturation/Lightness), HTML (hexadecimal Web colors), DEC (decimal color value).
- Display of further information regarding the window under the active corner mark: name and class of window, window handle, process ID, relating task.
- Setting to keep window always on top.
- Setting to hide/show tooltips.
- Short guide providing information about the most important control elements.
- Manual in PDF format.
- Installation program installs automatically the 32 or 64 Bit version of the program according to the relating operating system.
Screen Ruler 2D is a free software published in the Other list of programs, part of Graphic Apps.
This program is available in English, German, Dutch. It was last updated on 17 October, 2026. Screen Ruler 2D is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows.
The company that develops Screen Ruler 2D is Infonautics GmbH. The latest version released by its developer is 2.0. This version was rated by 4 users of our site and has an average rating of 4.0.
The download we have available for Screen Ruler 2D has a file size of 1.0 MB. Just click the green Download button above to start the downloading process. The program is listed on our website since 2025-06-13 and was downloaded 226 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Screen Ruler 2D as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Screen Ruler 2D on your Windows device:
- Click on the Download button on our website. This will start the download from the website of the developer.
- Once the Screen Ruler 2D is downloaded click on it to start the setup process (assuming you are on a desktop computer).
- When the installation is finished you should be able to see and run the program.
