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Extract a Color Palette from an Image

Load a picture and pull out its dominant colors as HEX swatches you can copy — computed entirely on your device.

Image Palette Extractor

Drop an image here or click to choose

🔒 Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or stored. All processing happens in your browser.

How it works

A color palette is the handful of colors that define an image's look. This tool extracts them automatically: it shrinks the picture to a small thumbnail for speed, reads every pixel with getImageData, and groups similar colors into buckets by rounding each channel. The most populated buckets are the dominant colors, and each swatch shows the average color of its bucket for an accurate result.

Pick how many colors you want — 6, 8, or 10 — and the swatches update, most-common first, each labelled with its HEX code. Click any swatch to copy that HEX to your clipboard for use in CSS, a design tool, or a brand guide.

Fully transparent pixels are ignored so they do not skew the results. Everything is computed in your browser, so you can pull palettes from private mockups, photos, and brand assets without uploading anything.

Examples

A photograph → an 8-color palette to build a matching design theme.
A brand logo → confirm and copy its exact HEX values.
A moodboard image → extract colors to seed a website's color scheme.

Frequently asked questions

How are the colors chosen?
The tool buckets similar colors together and ranks the buckets by how many pixels fall in each. The biggest buckets are the dominant colors, shown as their average value.
Why downscale the image first?
Sampling a smaller version is far faster and still captures the overall color distribution accurately, so the palette is the same but computed instantly.
Are transparent areas counted?
No. Pixels that are mostly transparent are skipped so they do not add a false color to the palette.
Can I copy a color?
Yes. Click any swatch and its HEX code is copied to your clipboard, ready to paste.
Is my image uploaded?
No. All pixel analysis runs locally in your browser, so private images stay on your device.