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Capturing overview

Capturing is how references get into Morgue. You browse the web like normal, and when you see something worth keeping, you capture it — and it lands in your library with its fonts and colors already attached.

The pieces​

Capturing involves two parts working together:

PartRole
The Morgue appRuns on your Mac and holds your library. It also runs a tiny local bridge so the extension can hand captures to it.
The browser extensionLives in your browser. It grabs the page (or a region of it), reads the fonts and colors, and sends everything to the app.
Everything stays on your machine

The extension talks to the app over a local connection on your own computer — not the internet. Your captures never pass through anyone else's server.

What a capture includes​

A single capture isn't just an image. Morgue saves:

  • The image — the screenshot itself (visible screen, full page, or a region).
  • A color palette — the dominant colors, extracted automatically.
  • Fonts — typefaces detected on the page.
  • The source — where it came from, so you can find it later by site.

Where captures land​

New captures appear in your All Assets grid in the app, ready to be tagged, foldered, dropped onto a board, or searched by color.

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