Color Picker & Palette Extractor - Pick Colors From Image

Upload any JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF and click anywhere on the displayed image — the exact pixel under your cursor is sampled and shown as HEX, RGB and HSL with one-click copy for each format. Perfect for matching a brand color, sampling a swatch from a photograph, or grabbing accent tones from a design mockup.

Click any pixel and this color picker tool shows its HEX color code (for example #FF6B35) alongside RGB and HSL — the same HTML/CSS color codes you paste straight into a stylesheet, design token or HTML attribute. Hit Copy to grab the hex code in one click.

The image is downsampled to 320 pixels on its longest side, then each pixel is bucketed by its top 4 bits per channel. The most-populated buckets are averaged back to full 8-bit color, sorted by frequency, and returned as your palette. The result is typically 5-24 dominant colors that visually summarise the image.

Yes. The Download buttons produce two formats: a CSS variable block ready to paste into a :root selector (--color-1, --color-2…), and a JSON file with hex, RGB components and weight percentage for each color. Both formats integrate cleanly into design tokens, Tailwind configs, and palette libraries.

No — color picking and palette extraction happen entirely in your browser using the HTML canvas API. The image stays on your device, which makes the tool safe for unreleased product photos, draft mockups, and brand assets under NDA.

For brand identity work, 5-8 colors is the sweet spot — it captures the dominant theme without diluting accent choices. For data visualisation we recommend 10-16 colors so you have enough categorical hues. The slider lets you pick between 5 and 24.

Pixels with alpha below 128 are ignored, so transparent backgrounds do not pollute the palette with "background" colors. This makes Image Color Picker especially good for product cutouts, sticker artwork and isolated subjects.

HEX (#RRGGBB) is the most compact and is what CSS, Figma and Sketch use by default. RGB shows the three component values from 0-255 — useful when working with image data programmatically. HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) is intuitive for adjusting colors: shift hue to change the color family, adjust lightness for tints and shades.

Yes. Free, no account required, no limits on image size or number of palettes extracted. There is nothing to install — the entire tool is a single web page.

No image needed. The Color Picker & Wheel at the top works on its own — drag the saturation/brightness square and the hue slider, or type any HEX, RGB or HSL value to dial in an exact colour. Uploading an image is optional, just for eyedropping colours out of a photo.

Pick your base colour and the Color harmonies panel instantly builds complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic and monochromatic schemes using colour-wheel theory. Click any swatch to copy its HEX code.

In the standalone Color Picker & Wheel, dial in your color and the panel shows its contrast ratio against pure white and pure black along with the WCAG rating — AAA, AA, AA Large, or Fail. Use this before finalizing a text or button color so it stays readable and meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines.

Yes. The standalone Color Picker & Wheel shows the closest matching named CSS color next to whatever HEX, RGB or HSL value you've dialed in, which is handy for quickly describing a shade in a brief, ticket or design spec without guessing.

Click Random in the Color Picker & Wheel to jump to a new color, then use the Color harmonies panel below it to see complementary, analogous, triadic and other coordinated palettes built from that color — a quick way to find a starting point when you're designing from scratch rather than sampling an existing image.

Use the Size dropdown above the palette to choose 5, 8, 10, 16 or 24 dominant colors — the palette recalculates instantly as you change it. Combine a small size like 5 for a clean brand palette with the picked-color eyedropper to grab one or two exact accent shades the automatic extraction might average away.

Yes — the standalone Color Picker & Wheel shows your current color's contrast ratio against pure white and pure black right under the swatch, labelled AAA, AA, AA Large or Fail per the WCAG thresholds (7:1, 4.5:1, 3:1). Use it to check a text/background pairing meets accessibility standards before you lock in a design color.

The Color Picker & Wheel automatically matches whatever color you've dialed in — via the picker, HEX box, or RGB/HSL fields — to its closest standard CSS color name, shown as 'Closest name' next to the swatch. It's a quick way to describe a color verbally or find its nearest web-safe equivalent.

Yes — every click or tap on the uploaded image adds a new swatch to your Picked Colors list rather than replacing the last one, so you can build up a custom set of exact pixel colors from different parts of a photo. Remove any single swatch with its × button, or clear the whole list with Clear picked.

Yes — the Random button (shuffle icon) in the Color Picker & Wheel jumps to a new hue, saturation and brightness combination in one click, useful for breaking creative block or exploring a palette you wouldn't have typed in manually. HEX, RGB, HSL and the harmony swatches below all update together.

On a touchscreen, drag your finger across the image to preview the color under it in a live floating swatch, then lift your finger to add that exact pixel to your Picked Colors list — no separate confirm tap needed. The same palette-size dropdown and export buttons work identically on mobile.