Image Color Palette
Extract a color palette from any image.
Image Color Palette at a glance
Image Color Palette is a free online image tool you can use right now to extract a color palette from any image โ no account, no install and no usage limit. It runs entirely inside your browser, so whatever you enter stays on your own device.
- Price
- Free โ no trial, no paid tier, no watermark
- Sign-up
- Not required
- Where it runs
- In your browser โ nothing is uploaded to a server
- Works on
- Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge โ desktop, tablet and phone
- Category
- Image Tools
Upload an image to pull its 6 dominant colors. Runs entirely in your browser.
About Image Color Palette
Extract the dominant colours from an image and get their HEX and RGB values.
Useful for building a palette from a photograph, matching a design to an existing brand image, or pulling colours out of a screenshot when the original design file is not available.
One caution when using an extracted palette directly in an interface: the colours that dominate a photograph are chosen for how they look together in that image, not for legibility as text or background. A palette lifted from a sunset is often several mid-tone colours with similar lightness, which look harmonious side by side and fail contrast requirements badly when used for text. Check any pair you intend to use for text against the contrast thresholds before committing.
The extracted colours are also averages over regions rather than exact samples. Compression, particularly JPEG, shifts colours slightly, so a value extracted from a compressed screenshot may differ marginally from the original design. For matching a brand colour precisely, use the brand's stated value rather than one sampled from an image of it.
How to use Image Color Palette
- Open the image you want to sample.
- Review the extracted dominant colours with their HEX and RGB values.
- Copy the values you need, and check contrast before using any pair for text.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use an extracted palette directly in a design?
With care. Colours that dominate a photograph are chosen for harmony, not legibility โ palettes from photos often share a similar lightness and fail text contrast requirements. Check any text pairing against the contrast thresholds first.
Why is the extracted colour slightly different from the original?
Extraction averages over regions, and lossy compression shifts colours slightly. For matching a brand colour exactly, use the brand's stated value rather than sampling an image of it.
How are the dominant colours chosen?
By grouping similar pixels and ranking the resulting clusters by how much of the image they cover, so the palette reflects what visually dominates rather than a simple pixel average.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The image is read into your browser and analysed locally โ nothing is transmitted.