Image Color Palette Extractor
Drop any image and the tool analyses every pixel to surface up to eight dominant colours, each with its hex code ready to copy. Perfect for building brand palettes from mood-board photos, matching a design system to a hero image, or extracting the exact colours a competitor is using on their site.
How to extract a palette
- Drop an image onto the tool or click to browse. Photos with clear colour blocks give the cleanest palettes.
- The tool quantises the pixels into up to eight representative colours and renders them as swatches.
- Click any swatch to copy its hex code to the clipboard. The swatch size reflects each colour's weight in the image.
- Paste the hex codes into your design tool, CSS variables, or brand style guide.
Common use cases
- Building a brand colour palette from a mood-board image or a client-supplied reference photo.
- Matching a UI design system to the colours of a hero photograph so the page feels cohesive.
- Reverse-engineering a competitor's colour scheme from a screenshot of their site.
- Creating palettes for data visualisation where you want chart colours to harmonise with a cover image.
Frequently asked questions
Why do the colours not perfectly match what I see?
Human colour perception and pixel averaging disagree in small ways. The extracted palette is the representative cluster colour, not the most common single pixel — which usually matches the designer's intuition better than a raw pick.
Can I extract more than eight colours?
The tool caps at eight because that is where diminishing returns kick in for most palette uses. For very large palettes, consider repeating the extraction on parts of the image and combining results.
Does the tool respect transparency?
Transparent pixels are skipped during the cluster pass, so palettes from logos or PNGs with transparent backgrounds reflect only the visible colours.
Are my images uploaded?
No. Pixel analysis runs on the Canvas in your browser locally. Your image never leaves the device.
About color extraction
Colour extraction clusters pixels into groups of similar hue and reports the representative colour of each group — a form of colour quantisation. Unlike picking a single pixel, the clusters reflect the image as a whole, so you get the palette a designer would actually sketch out from looking at the photo. Works best on images with clear colour blocks; messy or extremely noisy photos return more muddled palettes.
- Up to eight dominant colours per image
- Click any swatch to copy its hex code
- Visual sample of each colour's relative weight
- Browser-native colour quantisation
- Works on any common raster format
- Your images never leave your device
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By Marco B. ·