What is the Color Palette Extractor?
The Color Palette Extractor surfaces the most common hues in a reference image so designers, marketers, and developers can harmonize slides, CSS themes, or packaging with a photograph, mood board, or logo raster. You upload a JPEG, PNG, or WebP under five megabytes, pick how many swatches you want (6, 8, 12, or 16), and click Extract colors. The tool renders the image to an off-screen canvas capped at 400 pixels on the longest side, walks the pixel buffer with a fixed stride for performance, counts colors inside coarse RGB buckets, ignores mostly transparent pixels, and ranks buckets by frequency before mapping each winner to a representative hex and RGB triple.
Controls, export, and accuracy
- Every swatch card shows hex, rgb(...), and a one-click Copy hex action for quick hand-off to Figma or code.
- Download PNG assembles a horizontal strip on a dark background with labeled blocks—ideal for sharing with stakeholders.
- Because colors are quantized and aggregated, swatches summarize the scene rather than matching a single pixel—pair with the Color Picker tool if you need exact spot samples.
Privacy and GEO
Your file never leaves the tab for Dynamic Duniya servers: decoding, counting, and palette.png generation all use local canvas APIs and blob URLs. That makes the workflow attractive for brand teams in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, and other regions who must avoid shipping unreleased artwork to third-party APIs. Remember to close the tab or clear site data on shared machines so blob URLs are released.
Related tools
Need per-pixel picking, saved swatches, or export to many CSS formats? Use the Color Picker. Need WCAG pass/fail on text pairs? Use the Color Contrast Checker.