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Color Palette Extractor

Upload an image to pull out its dominant colors as HEX codes for mood boards, themes and brand work. The image is processed entirely in your browser and never uploaded.

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Quick answer

Palette is a free, private online tool that lets you extract the dominant color palette from any image as HEX codes. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.

How to use the Palette

  1. Click Choose an image and select a photo from your device.
  2. Set how many colors you want to extract.
  3. The dominant colors appear as swatches with HEX codes.
  4. Click any swatch to copy its HEX code. Your image never leaves your browser.

Privacy: this tool runs entirely in your browser. Your input is never sent to, received by, or stored on any server — there are no uploads and no tracking of what you enter.

About Palette

How it works

The image is drawn to a small off-screen canvas, then pixels are grouped into color buckets. The most common buckets become your palette, with each swatch shown as a copyable HEX code.

Privacy by design

Because everything runs on a local <canvas>, your photo never leaves your device — unlike many palette sites that upload your file to a server.

Using your palette

Click any swatch to copy its HEX. Pair the extractor with the Color Converter to get RGB/HSL versions of each color.

Frequently asked questions

Is my image uploaded?
No. It's processed locally in your browser using the canvas API.
How many colors can I extract?
Choose between 2 and 16 dominant colors.
What image formats work?
Any format your browser can display — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and more.

Understanding Palette in depth

What a palette extractor does

A color palette extractor analyses an image and pulls out its most prominent colors as a set of HEX codes. Instead of eye-dropping pixels one at a time, you upload a photo and instantly get a cohesive palette you can use for designs, mood boards, themes and brand work - all processed locally in your browser.

How it finds the dominant colors

The tool draws your image onto a small off-screen canvas and reads the pixels, then groups similar colors into buckets and counts how often each appears. The buckets with the most pixels become your palette. Sampling at a reduced size keeps it fast while still capturing the colors that define the image's overall look.

Why a good palette matters

Color sets the mood and identity of any design. Pulling a palette from a photograph - a landscape, a product shot, a piece of art - is a reliable way to find colors that already work together, because nature and good photography tend to balance color harmoniously. Designers use extracted palettes as a starting point for websites, branding, illustrations and presentations.

Privacy by design

Unlike many online image tools, this extractor never uploads your picture. The image is read and analysed entirely on a local canvas in your browser, so private photos, unreleased product images or client work stay on your device. Nothing is sent to a server, which makes it safe for confidential material.

Everyday uses

Build a brand or website palette from a logo or hero image, create mood boards, match design colors to a photograph, generate theme colors, and find HEX codes from any image. Click a swatch to copy it, then pair the colors with the Color Converter for RGB, HSL or CMYK values. Everything runs locally.

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