Image Color Extractor
Extract dominant colors and palettes from any image.
Turning Any Image Into a Usable Color Palette
Overview
An image color extractor analyzes a picture and returns its dominant colors as ready-to-use codes — HEX, RGB, and HSL — for design and branding work. Eyedropping colors one by one is slow and misses the colors that actually define an image's mood. This tool samples the entire image and clusters it into a representative palette in your browser, with no upload, so even unreleased product shots or private brand assets stay on your device.
How to Use (Step by Step)
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Drop an image
Photos, logos, screenshots, or illustrations all work. Higher resolution gives a more representative palette.
- 2
Review the palette
Dominant and accent colors appear with HEX, RGB, and HSL values.
- 3
Copy the codes you need
Click a swatch to copy its code, then paste into your CSS, design tool, or brand guide.
How It Works
The image is drawn onto a canvas and read as raw RGB pixel data. A clustering algorithm groups millions of pixels into a small set of representative colors weighted by how often each appears, producing the dominant palette plus accent colors. Each swatch is shown with HEX, RGB, and HSL values you can copy directly. All processing happens locally on the pixel data, so the original image is never transmitted.
When to Use This
Building a website or slide theme that harmonizes with a chosen photo. Extracting exact brand colors from a logo image. Creating a coordinated palette for an illustration or UI mockup. Generating moodboards from inspiration photos. Choosing accessible text and background combinations from a product shot. Matching a CSS gradient or chart colors to an image's tones.
Frequently Asked Questions
They're three ways of writing the same color. HEX (#3b82f6) is compact and common in CSS/design tools. RGB lists red/green/blue channels. HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) is the easiest for creating tints and shades by hand.