Image & Photo Tools
Colour Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colours out of any image as HEX, RGB and HSL, with contrast checks.
Privacy
Your images never leave your device. Files are decoded and redrawn by your own browser using the Canvas API, so nothing is uploaded, queued or logged.
Tips
- Colours are found with median cut, which is deterministic — the same image always produces the same palette.
- The share figure shows how much of the image each colour occupies, which is a good guide to how prominently to use it.
- Check contrast before using an extracted colour for text. Photographic colours are often mid-tone and fail accessibility thresholds.
Frequently asked questions
Why are the colours slightly different from the photo?
Each swatch is the average of a cluster of similar pixels rather than a single sampled pixel, so it represents a region rather than a point. That makes it more useful as a palette and less useful as an eyedropper.