Image Color Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colors from any image and copy each as HEX.
Upload an image and the tool samples its pixels, quantizes them into a small palette, and shows the dominant colors with their HEX codes. Adjust the number of colors from 3 to 12 — perfect for design moodboards and brand-color discovery.
Common use cases
- Build a moodboard palette from a hero photo or brand asset
- Match UI colors to a product photo for a coordinated landing page
- Pull the dominant colors of an album cover for fan art
- Analyze user-uploaded images to recommend complementary themes
Frequently asked questions
How does it pick colors?▾
We downscale the image and group pixels into 16-step RGB buckets, then sort buckets by frequency. It's a fast histogram quantization that gives a faithful palette in milliseconds.
Why not k-means?▾
Histogram quantization is good enough for a 5–10 color palette and runs in a few ms even on large images. K-means costs orders of magnitude more compute for a barely-perceptible difference.
Is the percentage exact?▾
It's the share of pixels each averaged bucket covers in the downscaled sample — accurate within 1–2% of the full-resolution image.
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