Color palette extractor
Upload an image and instantly get its dominant colors as a palette of swatches with HEX codes. Copy any color with a click — the whole analysis happens in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
How to use Color Palette Extractor
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Add your image
Drag an image into the drop area, or click to browse for one.
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See the palette
The dominant colors are extracted and shown as swatches instantly.
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Read the HEX codes
Each swatch shows its HEX value beneath it.
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Copy a color
Click any swatch's code to copy it and use it in your work.
Discover an image's color story
Every image has an underlying palette — the handful of colors that define its overall look and feel. Identifying those colors by eye is hard, because an image can contain thousands of distinct shades and the ones that actually characterize it are not always obvious. This tool does the analysis for you. You upload an image and it examines the colors throughout, groups the similar ones together, and surfaces the dominant shades as a clean palette of swatches. In a moment you go from a complex picture to a small, representative set of colors that capture its essence. This is invaluable whenever you want to understand or reuse the color scheme of an image: a photograph whose mood you want to match, a design whose palette you admire, a brand image you need to coordinate with, or simply an inspiring picture you want to build a color scheme around. Instead of guessing which colors matter, you get the image's real palette extracted automatically.
Swatches with HEX codes you can copy
An extracted palette is only useful if you can actually use the colors, so the tool presents each one as a swatch paired with its HEX code, the standard format for web and design work. You see the colors laid out visually, which makes the palette easy to take in at a glance, and each swatch's HEX value is right there ready to copy with a single click. This means you can lift any color from the palette straight into your stylesheet, your design tool or your document without conversion or retyping. Whether you want the single most dominant color, a couple of complementary shades, or the whole set to build a scheme, you can grab exactly what you need. Presenting both the visual swatch and the copyable code is what turns the extraction from an interesting observation into a practical resource: you do not just see what colors an image is made of, you can immediately put those colors to work in whatever you are building, with their precise values in hand.
Build palettes from inspiration
One of the most enjoyable uses of a palette extractor is turning visual inspiration into a usable color scheme. Designers and creators constantly draw on images — a photograph, an artwork, a sunset, a product shot, a moodboard reference — for the feeling a particular combination of colors evokes. Extracting the palette from such an image gives you a concrete, reusable starting point: the actual colors behind the look you were drawn to, ready to apply to a website, a brand, a presentation, an illustration or a room. It takes the guesswork out of translating 'I love the colors in this picture' into specific values you can build with. Because the tool surfaces several dominant colors rather than just one, you get a coordinated set that already works together — they came from the same image, after all — which is a strong foundation for a harmonious scheme. It turns any image you find inspiring into a palette you can immediately use, bridging the gap between inspiration and application.
Private by design — analyzed in your browser
The images you extract palettes from might be client work, unreleased designs, brand assets or personal photos, and there is no reason to upload them to a server just to analyze their colors. In1 examines the image and extracts its palette entirely in your browser, reading the pixels on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no account or sign-up. Because the analysis happens locally, it is fast and works exactly the same offline as online, with no file travelling anywhere. This local-only approach is the right default for creative work, where the images you draw inspiration or color from may be confidential or proprietary, but it keeps the tool quick and your pictures private for everyone. You can extract palettes from as many images as you like, free and without limits, with every picture handled on your own computer rather than someone else's server. The colors you pull out are yours, taken privately, ready to build with.
Who uses a color palette extractor?
It is a favorite among designers and creators of all kinds. Web and graphic designers extract palettes from reference images, photos and existing designs to build coordinated color schemes. Brand designers pull the exact colors from a logo or brand image to keep materials consistent. Digital artists and illustrators sample palettes from photographs and artwork to inform their own work. Interior and fashion enthusiasts extract colors from inspiring images to plan combinations. Marketers and content creators build on-brand palettes from product or campaign imagery. Developers grab a scheme from a mockup to implement it. Anyone who has been struck by the colors in an image and wanted to reuse them has a use for a tool that pulls those colors out automatically. Because the extractor presents the palette as copyable swatches with HEX codes, it turns any image into a ready-to-use set of colors, and because it runs entirely in the browser, it does so while keeping the source images completely private.
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