Extract colors from a photo

Upload an image and get a palette of its dominant colors: click any card to instantly copy the HEX code.

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JPG, PNG, or WebP โ€” the analysis happens entirely on your device

๐Ÿ”’ Your photo never leaves your browser: it is not saved or uploaded anywhere.

How the dominant colors are picked

The tool samples the pixels of a downscaled copy of your image and groups them into families of similar shades (a technique called quantization). The largest families become the palette, and near-duplicate shades are filtered out along the way. The result is 6โ€“8 colors that genuinely represent the photo โ€” not washed-out averages that all drift toward gray. It's the same principle design tools use to build palettes from moodboards and photography.

What you can do with a palette pulled from a photo

Starting from a photo's colors is the fastest way to keep your designs consistent: a video thumbnail that matches its cover frame, a landing page in your product's colors, a slide deck that harmonizes with the images inside it. Each HEX code (e.g. #FF8A5C) pastes straight into Canva, Figma, Photoshop, PowerPoint, or the CSS of your website.