Color Extractor
Pick colors from images and generate design palettes.
Pulling a Color Palette Out of Any Image
Overview
A color extractor analyzes an image and returns its dominant colors as a usable palette — hex codes you can drop straight into a design. Whether you're matching a brand to a photograph, building a mood board, or theming a website around a hero image, manually eyedropping colors is slow and imprecise. This tool samples the whole image and clusters its pixels into the handful of colors that actually define its look, all processed in your browser.
How to Use (Step by Step)
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Drop an image
Photos, logos, screenshots, or illustrations all work. Higher-resolution images give a more representative palette.
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Review the extracted palette
Dominant and accent colors appear with hex and RGB values.
- 3
Copy the codes you need
Click a swatch to copy its hex. Drop the values into your CSS, design tool, or brand guide.
How It Works
The image is drawn onto a canvas and its pixels are read as RGB values. A clustering algorithm (a median-cut or k-means style approach) groups millions of pixels into a small set of representative colors, weighted by how frequently each appears. The result is the dominant palette plus accent colors, each shown with its hex and RGB code ready to copy. Because it runs on the raw pixel data locally, the source image is never uploaded.
When to Use This
Building a website or slide theme that harmonizes with a chosen photo. Extracting brand colors from a logo image. Creating a coordinated palette for an illustration or UI mockup. Generating mood boards from inspiration photos. Picking accessible text/background combinations derived from a product shot. Matching a CSS gradient to the tones in a hero image.
Frequently Asked Questions
Typically the handful of dominant colors plus a few accents — enough to define a usable palette without overwhelming you. A photo with subtle gradients will cluster into fewer distinct tones than a graphic with flat color blocks.