Free Color Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colors out of any photo as copyable hex codes — free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
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Pull the dominant colors out of any photo as copyable hex codes — free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
A hex code is a six-character shorthand for a color, built from three pairs of characters representing red, green, and blue intensity — #000000 is black, #ffffff is white, and everything else is some mix in between. Design tools, CSS, and most creative software all accept hex codes directly, which is what makes them useful as a portable format: pull a palette from a photo you love, and you can paste those exact colors into a design project, a website's color scheme, or a presentation template without having to eyeball-match them by hand. This is a common way to build a cohesive color scheme around a mood board photo, a favorite piece of art, or even just a nice sunset photo that captures the feeling you're going for.
Yes, completely free with no sign-up and no limit on how many photos you use.
The tool samples pixels across the photo, groups similar colors together, and picks the most common groups — so the palette reflects what actually dominates the image, not just a handful of random pixels.
The palette shows dominant color groups, not every individual shade — a sky with dozens of subtly different blues will usually be represented by one or two hex codes that capture the overall tone, rather than every gradient step.
Yes — hex codes work directly in CSS, most design software, and presentation tools, so you can paste them in as-is without any conversion.
No. Everything happens locally in your browser — your photo is never sent to a server.
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