Color Palette from Image
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What this color palette extractor does

This tool finds the main colors in an image and gives you their codes.

You choose how many colors you want, from 3 to 10. The tool looks at a scaled-down copy of your image, groups similar pixels together and takes the average color of each group. Each group becomes one swatch.

The swatches are sorted by share: the color that covers the most of the image comes first. Each one shows its HEX code, such as #2563EB, ready to paste into a design app, a website stylesheet or a brand guide.

Transparent areas, such as the empty background of a cut-out PNG, are ignored, so they do not add a false color.

You can also download a palette card: a 1200 pixel wide image with your picture on top and the labelled swatches below. It is handy for mood boards and for sharing with a client or team.

Everything happens in your browser. Your image never leaves your device.

How to get HEX codes from an image

1. Choose an image. A photo, a painting, a screenshot of a website or a product shot all work. 2. Set the number of colors. Start with 6, the default. Use 3–4 for a bold, simple palette. Use 8–10 to catch secondary tones and accents. 3. Press Extract colors. The swatches appear with their HEX codes, largest share first. 4. Copy the codes you want, or download the palette card to keep the set together with its source.

If a color you can see in the image is missing, raise the count and extract again. If two swatches look almost the same, lower it.

To match an exact brand color from a logo, crop the image tightly around the logo first with the free image cropper. With less background in the picture, the logo colors take a bigger share and come out more precisely.

How the colors are chosen

It helps to know what the numbers mean, because they are not a pixel picker.

The tool uses a standard clustering method. It places a number of starting colors, assigns every pixel to the nearest one, moves each starting color to the average of its pixels, and repeats until the groups settle. The final averages are your swatches.

That has two practical effects.

A swatch is an average. It represents a whole area, such as a sky that shifts from pale to deep blue. The exact HEX may not appear as a single pixel in your image, but it is the color your eye reads for that area.

Small areas can merge. A small red detail in a mostly green photo may join a nearby group rather than get its own swatch. Raising the count gives small colors more room to appear.

For a single exact pixel, use a color picker in your design app. For the overall palette of an image, this is the right tool.

Using your palette in design, social and branding

Brand and design work. Pull a palette from a mood photo to start a brand, a presentation or a website theme. Use the first swatch as a background and the smaller, more saturated ones as accents.

Consistent feeds. Extract colors from your most-liked posts and reuse them in text, borders and backgrounds. The free border tool accepts any HEX code.

Matching an existing look. Extract colors from a client's artwork or packaging to keep new material in step.

Home, fashion and crafts. Photograph a room, an outfit or a landscape you love, and take the codes to a paint, fabric or yarn shop. Screens and printed colors never match exactly, so compare samples in real light before you buy.

Accessibility. When you pair colors for text and backgrounds, check the contrast. Two colors from the same photo can look great together yet be hard to read as text on background.

Pulling Colors From Client Images Privately

Your image never leaves your device. The color grouping and the palette card are both done in your browser. The image is read from your device, measured in memory and the results are shown on the page. Nothing is uploaded or saved on our servers.

That matters when the image is not yours to share yet: an unreleased product, a client's brand draft, a design under wraps. Many palette tools upload the picture to work out the colors. This one does not.

The page needs a connection to load. After that, the analysis is local. A free sign-in, which you need after the first few downloads, does not change this. Signing in never sends your image anywhere. You can extract palettes from as many images as you like, and none of them leave your device.

Free palette extractor vs the paid AI image generator

The free color palette extractor reads the colors in an image you already have. It gives you 3 to 10 swatches, HEX codes sorted by share and a downloadable palette card, all on your device. Processing is unlimited. The first few downloads need no account, and then a free sign-in keeps them coming.

The paid Imagera image generator goes the other way. It creates new images, and you can name your palette in the description: backgrounds, patterns, product scenes or mood boards in exactly the colors you extracted. It runs in the cloud, uses credits and keeps a history of what you make.

A simple workflow is to extract a palette from a photo you love here, then use those colors to brief new artwork in the generator.