Color Palette Extractor
Match a website or brand deck to a photograph by sampling its dominant colours. The extractor buckets pixels by frequency and returns the eight most common shades with their hex values and share of the image.
Key facts
- Category
- Image Utilities
- Price
- Free
- Account
- Not required
- Processing
- In your browser
- Input
- Local files or pasted data
- Platform
- Modern desktop and mobile browsers
What it does
Match a website or brand deck to a photograph by sampling its dominant colours. The extractor buckets pixels by frequency and returns the eight most common shades with their hex values and share of the image.
Pull the dominant hex colours out of any photo or design reference.
How to use it
Here is the short version of using Color Palette Extractor.
- Open an image — A mood board, product photo or landscape all work.
- Review the palette — Swatches are ordered by how much of the image they cover.
- Copy the hex values — Copy one colour or all eight as a comma-separated list.
Features that matter
What Color Palette Extractor does well.
- Nothing leaves your device — The work happens in your browser tab. There is no upload endpoint in this app, so your files and text cannot be stored, logged or seen by us.
- No upload wait — You skip the round trip to a server entirely. Results are limited by your own CPU, not by network speed or queue size.
- Free, no account, no quotas — No sign-up wall, no watermark, no daily limit. Optional accounts only exist to save favourites and presets across devices.
Frequently asked questions
Is my image safe to use here?
Yes. This tool runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you paste or open is sent to a server, and the page keeps no copy after you close it.
Do I need to create an account?
No. Every tool is fully usable without signing in. An account only adds saved favourites and reusable presets.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The interface is mobile-first with large touch targets and a stacked layout, so it works on phones and tablets as well as desktops.
Why is my accent colour missing?
The palette is weighted by pixel frequency, so a small logo or flower may not reach the top eight. Crop to the accent area and extract again for a focused palette.
Are the colours web-safe?
They are normal sRGB hex values and work in CSS. If you need a stricter accessibility check, run the pair through the WCAG contrast checker.
Open Color Palette Extractor
Try it now — it runs in your browser and needs no account.
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