What is the Color Palette Extractor?
The Color Palette Extractor turns any uploaded image into a practical design palette. It reads pixels locally with the Canvas API, clusters similar colors, and returns a ranked set of dominant swatches with HEX, RGB, and HSL values. Use it to pull brand colors from product photos, build UI palettes from references, or create gradient starting points from artwork without sending files to a server.
How to Use the Color Palette Extractor
- Upload or drop a JPG, PNG, GIF, or WebP image into the tool.
- Choose how many colors to extract, from 5 to 10 swatches.
- Click a color swatch to copy its HEX value, or copy RGB, HSL, CSS, and JSON formats from the value list.
- Open the palette in Gradient Palette Generator to create gradient combinations from the extracted colors.
Use Cases
- Extracting brand palettes from logos, hero imagery, and product photography
- Creating color systems from moodboards, illustrations, and campaign references
- Finding dominant colors for CSS gradients, social graphics, and backgrounds
- Converting visual references into HEX, RGB, and HSL values for design tools
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Color Palette Extractor find colors?
The tool samples image pixels in the browser, groups similar colors with a K-means style clustering algorithm, and sorts the resulting colors by visual dominance.
Are uploaded images sent to a server?
No. Images are processed locally with browser canvas APIs. The tool does not require an account, does not upload your files, and does not add watermarks.
Can I use the extracted colors in other graphic.so tools?
Yes. You can copy individual colors or open the extracted palette directly in the Gradient Palette Generator. The first extracted color can also seed the Color Palette Generator.