Tool StudioPull the dominant colors out of any photo
Upload a photo
Drag and drop or browse for an image.
Pick how many colors
4 to 10 — however many you need.
Copy any swatch
HEX, RGB, and the nearest color name are all shown.
Upload a photo and get its dominant colors back as a ready-to-use palette — not colors you type in, colors actually pulled out of the image itself. Each swatch shows its HEX and RGB values, the nearest standard color name, and roughly what percentage of the image it covers, sorted from most to least dominant. Pick how many colors to extract, from 4 up to 10. The image is analyzed entirely in your browser using real color-quantization math (median-cut, the same general technique many professional color tools use) on a downsized copy for speed — nothing is ever uploaded to a server. Once you've got a palette, paste any of its HEX codes into Color Converter + Palette to build shades, complementary, or triadic variations from it.
Color Converter builds a theoretical palette (shades, complementary, etc.) from one color you type in. This pulls the actual dominant colors out of a real photo you upload — a different starting point, and different math.
Median-cut color quantization — the image's pixels are grouped by repeatedly splitting the widest range of color until there are as many groups as colors you asked for, then each group's average color becomes one palette entry. It's the same general technique used in many professional color tools, not a fixed set of common colors.
4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 — pick whichever fits what you're building.
Roughly how much of the image that color covers, based on a downsized sample of the photo — sorted so the most dominant color comes first.
No — everything runs in your browser: reading the pixels, running the color math, and generating the swatches. The photo is never sent to a server.
It analyzes a downsized copy (up to 120px on the longer side) rather than the full-resolution image — this keeps extraction instant even for a large photo, and a downsized sample represents the same dominant colors just as reliably.
Mostly-transparent pixels are excluded from the analysis, so a transparent background doesn't get counted as a "dominant color" alongside the actual subject.
Any common format your browser can display — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and more.
Yes — each swatch shows its nearest match from the standard CSS color names (the same 147 names every browser recognizes), alongside the exact HEX and RGB values.
Yes — copy any swatch's HEX code and paste it into Color Converter + Palette to generate shades, complementary, analogous, or triadic variations from it.
No fixed limit — the image is processed entirely in your browser, so the practical limit is just your own device's memory.
Yes — uploading a photo and extracting its palette works the same on a phone as on desktop.
No — no account, no premium tier, and no daily cap. Everything on this site is free.
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Drop a photo here, or click to browse
Get its dominant colors as a ready-to-use palette — entirely in your browser