Image Color Picker & Palette Extractor
Extract a palette of the dominant colors plus the overall average color from any image right in your browser, each shown as a copyable HEX value.
Image Color Picker & Palette Extractor — Drop in any image and instantly pull out its color palette: the most dominant colors plus the overall average color, each with a swatch and a one-click HEX copy button. You choose how many dominant colors to extract (2 to 12). The image is read with the HTML canvas entirely in your browser and is never uploaded to a server.
What is Image Color Picker & Palette Extractor?
The Image Color Picker is a free online palette extractor that pulls the dominant colors and the average color out of any image right in your browser. Designers, front-end developers, and anyone building a brand or moodboard can drop in a photo, logo, or screenshot and get a HEX color palette in seconds. It reads the image pixels with the HTML canvas getImageData, quantizes them into color buckets, and ranks them by how often each color appears, so the most-used colors rise to the top. You set the palette size (how many dominant colors, from 2 to 12), and each color is shown as a swatch with a copyable HEX value alongside the image's overall average color.
How to use Image Color Picker & Palette Extractor
- Drag and drop an image onto the dropzone, or click it to pick a file (PNG, JPEG, WebP, or any other image your browser can open) from your device.
- Set the Palette size field to how many dominant colors you want, from 2 up to 12.
- Read the Average color row for the single blended average of the whole image, shown with its HEX value.
- Read the Dominant colors list, ordered from the most common color down, each with a color swatch and its HEX value.
- Click the copy button next to any color to copy that HEX value to your clipboard.
Examples
Pull a brand palette from a logo
Drop in a logo PNG and set Palette size to 4 to get the four most-used colors as HEX swatches, ready to paste into your design tokens or CSS variables.
Find a matching background tone from a photo
Load a hero photo and read the Average color row to get one blended HEX value that sits in harmony with the whole image, useful as a section background or fallback color.
Build a larger swatch set from an illustration
Drop in a colorful illustration and raise Palette size to 12 to extract a broad set of dominant colors ranked by how much of the image they cover.
Frequently asked questions
- What image formats can I use?
- Any image your browser can open (the dropzone accepts image/*), including PNG, JPEG, and WebP. The image is drawn to an HTML canvas and its pixels are read locally to extract the colors.
- How are the dominant colors chosen?
- The tool reads the image pixels, groups similar colors into buckets, and ranks the buckets by how many pixels fall into each. The top buckets become your dominant colors, shown most-common first, each as the average color of its bucket.
- How many colors can I extract?
- You set the Palette size between 2 and 12 dominant colors. The overall average color of the whole image is always shown separately, in addition to that list.
- Why might the colors differ slightly from the original image?
- For speed, large images are scaled down before reading and similar colors are grouped together, so each swatch is the average of a group rather than one exact pixel. The result is a faithful representative palette rather than a per-pixel color sample.
- Is my image uploaded anywhere?
- No. The image is processed 100% in your browser with the HTML canvas. It is never uploaded to deftdeck or any server, so the tool works offline and keeps your image private.
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