DESIGN TOOL
Image Color Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colors out of any image, with copyable hex codes.
About this tool
Upload an image to pull out its most dominant colors, ranked by how much of the image they cover. Click any swatch to copy its hex code — useful for matching a design's color scheme to a photo or piece of artwork.
Everything is processed locally using your browser's canvas — the image is never uploaded anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
- How are the dominant colors chosen?
- Every pixel is sampled and grouped into color buckets by rounding each RGB channel, then the buckets with the most pixels win — this gives a good approximation of dominant colors without needing a heavier clustering algorithm.
- Why don't the swatches always match what I'd pick by eye?
- This approach favors colors that cover more pixel area, which can sometimes miss a small but visually striking accent color — it's a statistical summary of the image, not a design judgment call.
- Does image size affect the result?
- Very large images are automatically downsampled before analysis for speed, which doesn't meaningfully change the dominant colors since it's still a representative sample of the whole image.