Image Color Palette Extractor
Upload an image and extract its dominant colors with HEX, RGB, and HSL codes.
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JPG, PNG, WebP — privacy-safe, in-browser
Upload an image and extract its dominant colors with HEX, RGB, and HSL codes.
JPG, PNG, WebP — privacy-safe, in-browser
This tool uses a quantization algorithm (median cut) to group similar colors and find the most prominent ones in your image. Click any swatch to copy its HEX code. Useful for brand identity, web design moodboards, and matching photo colors in app UI.
Designers reach for a palette extractor most often when a project needs to feel visually consistent with something that already exists — pulling the exact tones out of a client's logo before starting a website mockup, or matching a hero image's background to the surrounding page instead of guessing at a HEX code by eye. Developers use it to theme an app around a user-uploaded photo, such as generating an accent color for a music player from the current album art. It's also popular for building an Instagram or Pinterest aesthetic — feeding in a favorite photo to extract a cohesive color scheme for a moodboard, room design, or wardrobe planning. Print designers sometimes use extracted colors as a starting point but should double-check that HEX values translate reasonably to CMYK, since screen colors and printed ink don't always match. A quick tip: photos with strong lighting or shadows tend to bias the extracted palette toward darker tones, so a well-lit, color-accurate source image gives the most useful results.
It identifies the dominant colors in the image and returns a curated palette rather than every color present.
Each extracted color includes HEX, RGB, and HSL values so you can drop it directly into CSS, design tools, or brand guidelines.
No — color extraction happens client-side in your browser; the image is never uploaded.
Want more detail? Read How to Use Color Palette Extractor: Practical Guide and Best Practices.