Extract Colors from Image
Upload a photo or screenshot. Get the dominant colors as a palette.
How it works
- 1
Upload an image
Drag a photo, screenshot, or artwork onto the upload area.
- 2
View extracted colors
The 5 most dominant colors appear as swatches.
- 3
Copy what you need
Click any swatch to copy its hex code.
What is color extraction from images?
Color extraction analyzes the pixels in an image to identify its most dominant colors. Algorithms like k-means clustering group similar pixels together and return the centroid of each cluster as a representative color.
This is useful for deriving brand palettes from photography, matching UI colors to product images, or extracting a cohesive palette from inspiration artwork. The extracted colors often need refinement: raw pixel colors may not have sufficient contrast or fit within an accessible color system.
Professional workflows typically extract colors as a starting point, then adjust lightness and saturation to meet design system requirements. A raw photo palette rarely passes WCAG contrast checks without modification.
Extracted colors are a starting point.
Paletta turns them into a full design system: shade scales, semantic tokens, WCAG-validated, production-ready.