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Image Color Palette Extractor — Free Online Tool
Upload any photo and instantly get its dominant colors — 6 to 8 swatches with HEX and RGB codes, ready to copy for your next design.
Median-cut quantization
Click any swatch to copy
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How it works
1Drop an image into the box above.
2Extract — thousands of pixels are sampled and grouped by median-cut quantization.
3Copy any swatch with one tap to grab its HEX code.
Frequently asked questions
How are the colors chosen?
The image is downscaled and thousands of its pixels are grouped by median-cut quantization, which repeatedly splits the color space along the widest channel. Each swatch is the average of its group, ranked by how much of the image it covers.
Why might two swatches look similar?
Median-cut splits purely by statistics, so two groups can land near each other on photos with smooth gradients. Exact duplicates are removed automatically.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. Sampling and quantization run entirely in your browser with plain JavaScript — no libraries, no servers.
Median-cut quantization · click-to-copy HEX · 100% local.