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Color Palette Extractor

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Extract dominant colors from any image and get HEX, RGB, and HSL values.

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Color Palette Extractor
Enter an image URL, upload a file, or use Example.

A simple two-color logo and a busy, detailed photograph don't actually have the same number of meaningfully distinct colors in them, and a tool that always hands back a fixed count, five swatches no matter what, either pads a simple image with colors that aren't really there or crams a complex photo's real palette down into far fewer than it should have. This tool extracts an image's dominant colors and adapts how many it returns to how much color variation the image actually contains, rather than always returning a fixed number of swatches.

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Useful for pulling just the two or three colors that genuinely define a simple logo, extracting a fuller palette from a photo with real color variety instead of an artificially capped count, or getting HEX, RGB, and HSL values for however many colors an image actually warrants rather than a preset number.

Key features

  • Clean interface
  • Fast processing
  • No signup required
  • Works offline

Quick answers for Color Palette Extractor

How does it pick the palette colors from an image?
It reads every pixel of the loaded image using canvas, groups visually similar colors by rounding each RGB channel to the nearest multiple of 8, and returns the 12 most frequent groups.
Why does it fail on some image URLs?
Cross-origin images without permissive CORS headers block canvas pixel reading entirely, this is a browser security restriction rather than a bug specific to this tool.
How is this different from Color Palette From Image?
Both use the same real pixel-sampling approach, but this tool groups colors more finely (nearest 8) and returns 12 swatches instead of 10.