Color Palette
Extract color palettes from images
100% free. Runs entirely in your browser - your files and data never leave your device and nothing is uploaded to any server.
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Supports PNG, JPG, WebP
Processed in your browser - your file never leaves this device.
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.
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.
Yes. Color Palette is free for normal use with no account required, and ToolBox does not add a watermark to your result.
Most tools in this category run in your browser so the file stays on your device. If a tool needs a temporary server job, files are handled for that job only and are not kept as a lasting archive.
No install needed. Open Color Palette in your browser, add your file or paste your input, then download or copy the result.
Yes on modern mobile browsers. For large files, a desktop browser is usually faster and more reliable.
Try a different quality or format setting, use a smaller input, or open a related tool (for example compress before convert). Keep a copy of the original file before replacing it.
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