Color Palette
Extract color palettes from images
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About this tool
Analyze an image and extracts its dominant colors as a ready-to-use palette - useful for matching a design to a photo, building a color scheme inspired by an image, or quickly identifying a brand's core colors from their marketing photos.
How to use this tool
- Upload reference imageChoose the photo, artwork, or brand visual you want to sample.
- Extract dominant colorsRun analysis to generate a representative palette from key tones.
- Review swatches and codesCheck HEX/RGB values and keep colors that match your design intent.
- Export and apply paletteCopy codes into your style guide, design file, or CSS variables.
How to build a colour scheme from a photo
Upload a photo you like and the dominant colours are extracted as a palette with HEX codes. Use the darkest colour for text, a neutral one for backgrounds, and the strongest colour for buttons and highlights - roughly 60% background, 30% secondary and 10% accent.
Photos with a clear mood work best: a sunset, a landscape, an interior or a product shot. Check text and background pairs with a contrast checker before using them on a website.
Key features
- Quickly builds cohesive palettes from real visual references.
- Removes manual eyedropper guesswork for brand matching.
- Useful for UI themes, posters, and social templates.
- Provides ready-to-use numeric color codes.
Common uses
- Creating a website theme from a hero image.
- Extracting product-brand colors for marketing creatives.
- Generating palette ideas from photography mood boards.
- Building consistent presentation or infographic color sets.
Tips for better results
- Use high-quality images to avoid muddy or noisy color extraction.
- Prefer 4-8 practical swatches rather than every detected tone.
- Validate text contrast before using extracted accents for typography.
- Keep one neutral color for backgrounds and spacing balance.
Mistakes to avoid
- Using too many similar shades with no clear hierarchy.
- Selecting only vibrant colors and forgetting neutral support tones.
- Ignoring accessibility contrast for text-on-background combinations.
- Trusting auto extraction blindly without visual review.
Frequently asked questions
Typically a handful of the most dominant/representative colors in the image, giving you a usable palette rather than every unique pixel color.
Usually HEX codes (and often RGB too), ready to paste directly into design tools or CSS.
Good palette extraction weighs both frequency and visual prominence, so a small but vivid accent color can still show up alongside the large background colors.
Pick one dominant colour for buttons and links, one or two neutrals for text and backgrounds, and use the rest sparingly as accents. Check text contrast before committing.
Images with a clear colour mood - a sunset, a forest, a styled flat lay - produce cohesive palettes. Busy photos with many unrelated colours give scattered results.
Copy the HEX codes: Canva and Figma accept them in their colour pickers and brand kits, and in CSS you can store them as custom properties such as --brand: #1a73e8.