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Color Palette from an Image

Pull the dominant colors out of a photo as hex codes. Analyzed locally, nothing is uploaded.

Processed entirely in your browser. Never uploaded to a server.

Or drop a photo here.

Drop a photo above and this tool pulls out its dominant colors as a small palette of hex codes — useful for matching a design to a photo, building a brand or website color scheme, or just knowing what's actually in an image without eyedropper-picking pixels one at a time. It's not a simple "most common pixel" count: a photo can contain millions of near-identical shades of the same color, so counting raw frequency would just return eight near-duplicate variations of whatever color takes up the most space in the frame. Instead the tool groups similar colors together first (the same clustering approach a GIF encoder uses to pick its 256-color palette), then reports each group's representative color — which is why the result reads as a handful of visually distinct swatches instead of a wash of near-identical grays or blues.

Each swatch shows its hex code and copies individually on click; the "copy all" button grabs the whole palette at once, ready to paste into CSS, a design tool, or a style guide. Works on any photo format your browser can decode — JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC from an iPhone — and nothing you drop here is uploaded anywhere.

FAQ

Is my photo uploaded to extract the colors?
No. The image is analyzed in this browser tab using the same color-quantization approach a GIF encoder uses to pick its palette — Kit-Bin never receives the file.
How are the colors chosen?
Not just the most frequent pixels — that tends to pick near-duplicate shades from a large area of one color. The algorithm groups similar colors together first, so the result better represents the image's actual range of color rather than just its biggest block.
Why does a mostly-one-color photo still show several swatches?
The tool always returns up to 8 colors, even from a fairly uniform image — some will be close variations of each other in that case. That's expected, not a bug.
What can I do with the hex codes?
Paste them directly into CSS, a design tool, or a style guide. Each swatch copies its own hex code, and there's a "copy all" button for grabbing the whole palette at once.
Does it work on any image format?
Any format your browser can decode into an image — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and HEIC photos straight from an iPhone. If a file won't load, it's not a supported image format rather than a size or color issue.
Is there a limit on image size?
No hard limit, since nothing leaves your browser. Large photos are automatically downscaled before the color analysis runs, so a 40-megapixel photo takes about the same time to process as a small one and returns the same palette.

Want to know how the clustering actually works? Read how color palette extraction works. Converting between hex, RGB, and HSL for the colors you find? See hex vs RGB vs HSL.

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