Color Palette Extractor
Upload any image and instantly extract a beautiful color palette. Get HEX, RGB and HSL values, copy as CSS variables, or download as PNG.
Drop an image here or click to browse
Supports JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF
About Color Palette Extractor
Color is one of the most powerful elements of visual identity. Matching exact brand colors, building a cohesive design palette from a reference image, or identifying the precise hex values of colors in a photograph are all common design tasks that require accurate color extraction tools.
Our Color Palette Extractor analyzes any uploaded image using a color quantization algorithm that identifies the most visually dominant and perceptually distinct colors. The result is a clean palette of swatches, each showing the HEX, RGB, and HSL values of the extracted color. Click any swatch to copy its HEX value to your clipboard instantly, or export the whole palette as a comma-separated hex list, as CSS custom properties, as JSON, or as a labelled PNG strip. All extraction runs in your browser via Canvas API — no image is uploaded to a server.
The tool is particularly useful for brand work, mood boards, and design-to-code workflows. Upload a brand logo to extract its exact color values, analyze a reference photograph to build a complementary palette for a UI project, or check what colors dominate a competitor's visual identity. The extracted palette gives you the raw color data to bring any visual inspiration into your design system.
How to Use Color Palette Extractor
- 1Drop an image on the upload area, or click it to browse — a photo, a logo, a screenshot, anything in JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF.
- 2The tool analyzes the image automatically and displays the dominant color palette. Every swatch shows its HEX, RGB and HSL values at once, so there is no format to switch.
- 3Click any color swatch — or the "Copy HEX" button beneath it — to copy that value straight to your clipboard.
- 4Drag the "Colors to extract" slider to set the palette size, anywhere from 2 to 24 swatches.
- 5Switch between Dominant and Vibrant: Dominant lists the most frequently occurring colors, Vibrant reorders the same palette to put the most saturated ones first.
- 6Grab the whole palette at once with "Copy HEX" for a comma-separated list, "Copy CSS" for ready-made --color-1, --color-2 custom properties, or "Copy JSON" for hex, rgb and hsl of every swatch.
- 7Click "PNG" to download the palette as an image with the hex codes printed under each color — ready for a moodboard or a client deck.
Use Cases
- →Extract brand colors from a company logo to build a design system color palette
- →Build a cohesive color scheme from a reference photograph for a website or app UI
- →Identify the exact hex values of colors you see in a screenshot but cannot select
- →Generate a moodboard color palette from inspirational imagery
- →Check the color composition of a competitor's visual identity for analysis
- →Pull accent colors from a product photo to use in surrounding UI elements
Tips
- ✓Higher-resolution images produce more accurate and perceptually distinct color extraction
- ✓Click any color swatch to copy its HEX value to your clipboard in a single click
- ✓Vibrant mode is the quickest way to find an accent color — it pushes the most saturated swatch of the same palette to the front
- ✓"Copy CSS" hands you --color-1 through --color-N, ready to paste straight into a :root block
- ✓Increase the palette size to 8–12 colors for richer palettes from complex, colorful images
- ✓Works best with images that have clear, distinct color regions rather than heavily blended gradients
- ✓Use alongside the CSS Gradient Generator to create gradients inspired by extracted palette colors
- ✓For product photos, extracting 4–6 colors usually captures all the dominant tones accurately
Frequently Asked Questions
You can extract between 2 and 24 colors from any image. Use the slider to choose the exact number that works for your project.
The extractor supports JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and AVIF. Just drag and drop your image or click to browse — no conversion needed.
No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using the Canvas API. Your images never leave your device.
Dominant mode returns the most frequently occurring colors in the image. Vibrant mode reorders the same palette to show the most saturated (colorful) colors first.
The colors themselves are not protected by copyright. You can use any extracted color values freely in personal or commercial projects.
Click the color swatch itself, or the "Copy HEX" button below it, then paste directly into Figma's color picker or any design tool that accepts HEX values. To take the whole palette at once, use "Copy HEX" for a comma-separated list, "Copy CSS" for ready-made custom properties, or "Copy JSON" for structured data.