How Are The Colors Chosen?

Representative seed colors are iteratively refined in CIELAB space, which groups colors more like human vision than raw RGB distance. The selected profile can also ignore transparent, near-white or near-black mats.

Is The Image Uploaded?

No. The analysis runs on a local downscaled copy in your browser.

Color Palette Extractor

Extract accurate photo, brand, screenshot or artwork palettes with contrast-aware swatches and professional exports.

Extract A Palette From Any Image

High-resolution perceptual color analysis runs locally — the image never uploads.

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Keeps Full Image Range

Upload a photo, logo, artwork or screenshot and choose the matching image profile. Balanced mode preserves meaningful coverage without letting a large neutral background bury identity colors.

Colors are clustered in CIELAB with a 14-pass k-means refinement, perceptual duplicate merging and profile-aware background filtering. Each swatch also reports the stronger black-or-white text contrast.

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What Is the Color Palette Extractor?

The Color Palette Extractor downsamples images at high resolution, seeds representative colors and refines them with fourteen k-means iterations in CIELAB perceptual color space. Photo, Brand/Logo, UI Screenshot and Artwork profiles handle backgrounds and transparency differently; dominant, balanced, vibrant and muted modes change which representative colors surface. Every swatch includes HEX/RGB/HSL, estimated coverage and the better black-or-white text contrast.

How It Works

Drop in a photo, logo, artwork or screenshot, choose the matching image profile, palette mode and color count, then copy individual colors or export CSS, SCSS, JSON or a labeled PNG strip.

When to Use It

Use it to build brand boards, match slide or interface themes to a photo, audit readable foreground choices or document a product's color story.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Are The Colors Chosen?: Representative seed colors are iteratively refined in CIELAB space, which groups colors more like human vision than raw RGB distance. The selected profile can also ignore transparent, near-white or near-black mats.
Is The Image Uploaded?: No. The analysis runs on a local downscaled copy in your browser.

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