Extract color palette

Extracting a color palette from an image is one of the most common tasks in design workflows: building mood boards, deriving brand colors from logos, generating harmonious website palettes, color-matching product shots for e-commerce themes.

This tool extracts the most dominant colors of any image locally in your browser. The algorithm runs in two stages: first a color-space quantization (k-means clustering on the HSL values of the pixels), then a sort by frequency and saturation to surface the most expressive colors first.

How many colors?The default is a 5-color palette, matching a typical brand identity: primary, secondary, accent, background tone, text tone. You can dial it from 3 to 12 colors. For very color-rich images (sunsets, flower shots) an 8-color palette often represents the source better than 5; for monochrome images 3 is enough.

What you can do with the palette.First: copy HSL and HEX values for use in CSS, Figma or Photoshop. Second: generate complementary colors (optional) — the algorithm derives triadic, complementary and analogous schemes from the dominant color, mathematically harmonious to the source. Third: check contrast — per color pair the WCAG contrast value is shown, important for accessible design.

Usage tips.Extracting a brand palette from a logo: pick 3–5 colors and ensure one light (for backgrounds) and one dark (for text) are included. Building a photo mood palette for a travel blog: pick 5–8 colors and use the mid tones (typically sunset orange, sand beige, sky blue) as accent variables in your CSS theme.

Privacy.Local in your browser. No upload. Related: color palette for design.