Art tools
Palette extractor
Load an image to pull out its dominant colors. The picture never leaves your browser.
How it works
Load an image and this tool finds its dominant colors. It draws the picture to a canvas, samples the pixels, and groups them with median-cut quantization - the same family of technique used to reduce an image to a small set of representative colors - then shows the resulting palette as swatches with HEX codes. You choose how many colors to extract, typically four to eight.
It is the fast way to build a palette from a photo, a piece of artwork, or a moodboard: pull the key colors out of a sunset, a film still, or a product shot and reuse them in a design. All of the sampling and clustering happens on your device, so the image is never uploaded and the tool works offline.
Example. Upload a photo of a forest at golden hour and ask for six colors. The extractor returns a warm palette - a deep green, a mossy mid-green, a golden highlight, a shadow brown, and two neutrals - each with a HEX code to copy.
FAQ
How does it choose the dominant colors?
It samples the image pixels and runs median-cut quantization, which repeatedly splits the colors into groups and averages each group. The result is a small palette of colors that best represent the whole image.
How many colors can I extract?
You pick the count, usually between four and eight. Fewer gives you the broad mood of the image; more captures finer variation and accent colors.
What can I do with the extracted palette?
Each color comes with a HEX code you can copy into CSS, a design app, or a painting program - useful for matching a design to a reference photo or building a theme from artwork.
Is my image sent to a server?
No. The image is read and analyzed entirely in your browser on a canvas. Nothing is uploaded, so it works offline and your pictures stay private.