Color Palette Extractor

Free

Extract dominant colors from any image using median-cut quantization. Get HEX, HSL, CMYK, LAB, and more. RGB always shown.

Tool workspace

Upload an image to extract its color palette

Color Science

The 60-30-10 Rule

Professional designers use the 60-30-10 rule: 60% dominant color, 30% secondary, 10% accent. Our extractor sorts colors by dominance, making it easy to apply this classic formula to any image you love.

16 Million Colors

A standard JPEG can contain up to 16.7 million unique colors. Our algorithm buckets similar colors and finds the most frequent ones — reducing millions of pixels to the 6 colors that truly define the image.

Nature Knows Best

Studies show that color palettes derived from nature photographs are perceived as more harmonious than manually created ones. Sunset photos, forests, and ocean scenes consistently produce the most visually pleasing palettes.
Pro Tip: Click any color swatch to copy its value to your clipboard. Switch formats to get HEX, HSL, CMYK, LAB, LCH, or GL values instantly.
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