Web Design
Color Palette Extractor
Dominant colors from any image
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ℹ️ Uses k-means to find dominant colors. Vivid images yield better results.
Quick guide
What can Color Palette Extractor help you do?
Free color palette extractor. Upload an image to get a 5/8/12-color palette with copyable HEX and RGB values. Browser-based, no upload.
Best for
Use this to derive an approximate set of representative colors from a photo or illustration for design exploration. Colors come from pixel clustering, not a selected-point eyedropper. The tool does not provide brand-color matching, print swatches, or color-area percentages.
How to use it
Upload an image, choose five, eight, or twelve colors, and extract the palette; eight is the default. Click a swatch to copy its HEX value or copy all codes together. After selecting another image, run extraction again for that image.
How to read the result
Analysis reduces the longest side to at most 200 pixels, skips pixels with alpha below 250, and runs up to ten k-means iterations. Swatches are sorted by descending RGB sum, not area. Images with few distinct colors may return fewer than requested.
Privacy and limits
Image sampling and clustering run in browser Canvas and page code, without an image-upload request or remote palette service. Copy actions write color codes to your system clipboard. The image preview and sampled pixels remain in page memory while you use the tool.
Random starting centers can make repeated extractions differ slightly, and downsampling may miss small color details. Fully transparent images cannot be analyzed. Results do not include text-contrast or print checks; verify chosen colors against actual backgrounds and on the intended output device.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does it work?
Samples pixels and clusters them with k-means. Each cluster center is a dominant color.
Why are some colors similar?
If the image has narrow color range (monochromatic), the palette will too. Try a higher palette size.
Can I select a region?
This tool analyzes the whole image. Crop first if needed.