Need the exact colors from a logo, photo, or screenshot without opening an image editor? This tool samples an image’s pixels directly in your browser and surfaces its dominant colors as ready-to-use hex codes.
What Is the Image Palette Extractor?
Upload an image and it downsamples the pixels into a coarse color cube, groups similar colors together, and returns the most frequent color buckets as a palette — each shown with its hex code and the percentage of the image it covers.
How to Use It
- Open the tool at /tools/palette-extractor.
- Drop in an image or choose one from your device.
- Adjust the number of colors you want extracted.
- Copy any hex code directly from the swatches.
Key Features
- Fast pixel-bucket quantization — works well for photos, screenshots, and UI mockups.
- Configurable palette size from 2 to 12 colors.
- Percentage coverage shown per color so you know which ones actually dominate.
- Transparent-pixel aware — doesn’t count a transparent PNG background as a “color.”
When to Use This Tool
- Building a design system from an existing brand photo or logo.
- Matching a website’s color scheme to an inspiration image.
- Quickly checking what colors dominate a screenshot or mockup.
Try It Now
Open Image Palette Extractor directly, or press ⌘K and type the tool name from anywhere on the site.
Part of the Color Tools collection on WebdevToolbox — free, browser-based developer tools with no login required.