Color Palette Extractor — Extract Colors from Any Image
Upload an image and get its dominant color palette instantly: 4-12 colors with HEX / RGB / HSL values, one-click copy per swatch, plus CSS variables and Tailwind config export. Analyzed locally in your browser — no upload. Works on desktop, tablet & mobile.
A color palette extractor analyzes an image and picks out its most representative colors — perfect for turning a photo, poster or reference image into a usable color scheme. This tool runs a median-cut quantization algorithm entirely in your browser: upload an image and instantly get 4-12 dominant colors with their share of the picture. Click any swatch to copy its value, switch between HEX / RGB / HSL formats, and developers can export the whole palette as CSS variables or a Tailwind config snippet ready to paste into a project. Everything is computed locally — your image is never uploaded or stored.
When you need this
Design inspiration
Turn a photo or poster you love into a working color scheme.
Frontend & branding
Convert brand imagery into CSS variables or Tailwind colors.
Content creation
Match text and background colors to cover images and slides.
About the results
- Dominant colors sorted by share — see the composition at a glance
- HEX / RGB / HSL switching with one-click copy, CSS variables & Tailwind export
- Local quantization with downsampling first — fast even on large images, no upload
- Quantized colors are representative averages, not exact single-pixel values
- More colors means finer splits; 4-8 colors usually work best for palettes
- Near-solid or gradient images may yield several very similar swatches
Color extraction FAQ
The palette comes from quantizing the whole image, so each swatch is a representative average of a color region — not the exact value of one pixel. If you need a specific pixel, crop or zoom into that area first, or use your OS eyedropper.
They are three notations for the same color: HEX (e.g. #1C72DE) is the most common in web and design tools; RGB lists red/green/blue values; HSL describes hue, saturation and lightness, which makes lighten/darken adjustments intuitive. Toggle the format buttons and copy whichever you need.
Paste the CSS variables block into your global stylesheet (e.g. :root) and reference them with var(--palette-1). Merge the Tailwind snippet into theme.colors in tailwind.config, then use classes like bg-palette-1 or text-palette-2.
No. Extraction runs in your browser: the image is downsampled to a tiny size and quantized locally. Nothing is sent over the network, stored, or shared — it even works offline.