Building UI Themes Around Hero Photography
Extract dominant primary, secondary, and accent colors from a client's hero photograph or product shot so website buttons, badges, and backgrounds harmonize naturally.
Image Palette Extractor
Turn inspiring photographs, brand logos, UI screenshots, and illustrations into ready-to-use color schemes. Our browser-based color quantization engine analyzes pixel distribution across your image to surface the eight most dominant distinct swatches — complete with one-click HEX and RGB codes.
Drag and drop an image here
JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF
Dominant colours
Upload an image to find its most common colours.
Your file is processed locally in your browser and is not uploaded to our servers.
How to Extract a Color Palette
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Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image (such as a brand logo, nature photograph, or design reference) from your device.
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The tool automatically samples the canvas pixels and groups similar tones into 8 dominant color clusters.
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Review the generated color swatches alongside their exact HEX codes and RGB channel values.
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Click any swatch's 'Copy HEX' button to copy the color code directly to your clipboard for use in CSS, Tailwind, Figma, or Canva.
Practical Use Cases
Auditing Brand Guidelines From Existing Logos
Drop a client's PNG or JPG logo into the extractor to recover exact HEX and RGB brand codes when official style documentation is missing.
Creating Moodboards & Color Harmonies
Capture cohesive 8-color palettes from film stills, fine art paintings, or room photos to guide digital illustration palettes and decor schemes.
Palette Extractor Features
8-Swatch Color Quantization
Groups thousands of raw pixel variations into the eight most representative distinct shades in your image.
Dual HEX & RGB Readouts
Displays both web-standard hexadecimal (`#RRGGBB`) and decimal `rgb(r, g, b)` values for every extracted swatch.
One-Click Clipboard Copy
Copy any swatch's HEX code immediately with visual confirmation.
100% Client-Side Privacy
All pixel operations run directly inside your browser via HTML5 Canvas. Your images are never uploaded to any remote server.
Real-Time Canvas Preview
Inspect every adjustment immediately on an interactive preview canvas before exporting your final file.
Responsive Mobile & Desktop Controls
Precision sliders, presets, and export buttons adapt cleanly to touchscreens, tablets, and desktop monitors.
Technical Specifications & Best Practices
- ✓Palette extraction ranks colors by surface area frequency; if you need to sample a tiny 2-pixel accent detail, pair this tool with our magnifying Image Color Picker.
- ✓Transparent pixels (alpha < 128) in PNG and WebP logos are automatically ignored so transparent backgrounds do not skew your palette toward black or white.
- ✓All color quantization runs locally in your browser via HTML5 Canvas `getImageData()` — unreleased brand assets and private photos are never uploaded.
- ✓Works with JPG, PNG, WebP, and GIF images of any resolution.