Image Color Extract

How to Extract Colors from an Image

1. Select or drop your image. Click "Select Image" or drag any image file onto the drop zone above.
2. Look at the palette. The dominant colors in the image appear as a row of swatches below the preview.
3. Click a swatch to copy. Each one gives you its HEX code, ready to paste into a stylesheet or design file.
4. Try another image. Click New Image to extract a palette from a different picture.

What This Tool Does

This tool reads through an image and pulls out the colors that dominate it, giving you a ready-made palette. It's a fast way to build a site's color scheme around a hero photograph, pick up the exact colors from a logo you've only got as an image, turn a mood board into usable HEX values, or design a banner that sits naturally alongside a product shot.

Everything runs entirely inside your browser. Your images are never uploaded to a server, so your files stay private.

Turning an Extracted Palette into a Usable One

What comes out reflects what's actually in the picture, which isn't always the same as what makes a good interface palette. Photographs often yield several colors that sit close together, and a strongly tinted image can produce a set that's more saturated than you'd want across a whole page. Treat the result as raw material rather than a finished scheme.

A practical approach is to take one or two colors as your accents and let neutrals carry the rest of the layout. If a color is close but not quite right, feed it into the Color Picker and adjust the lightness through its HSL value. And before putting text on any of these colors, check the pair with the Contrast Checker — colors sampled from a photo are chosen by how much of the image they cover, not by whether they're readable.

Frequently Asked Questions