Extract a Color Palette From an Image

A sunset photo, a competitor's landing page, a vintage poster, a fabric swatch: the colours that make them work are sitting there, but you need them as codes to use in a design, a slide deck or a stylesheet. Drop the image on this page and it reads the whole picture and returns its six dominant colours as a palette, each with a HEX code you can copy with a click. If one specific spot matters, click it on the image and that pixel's HEX and RGB values appear as well.

The palette is a statistical summary, which is worth understanding. It reflects the colours that cover the most area, so a photo of a red boat on a big grey sea gives you mostly greys, with the red perhaps absent; for the accent you want, click the boat directly. Neighbouring pixels in a photo also differ more than the eye notices, so sampling two or three points in the same patch and choosing the one that looks representative gives a steadier result than a single click.

For a brand colour, take the code from the original logo file or the brand guidelines rather than from a photo of a sign, since JPG compression and camera white balance shift hues slightly. The image is analysed in your browser and never uploaded, so a confidential mock-up stays confidential.