Image Color Picker
Click anywhere on an image for its exact HEX and RGB value, and get the dominant palette extracted automatically.
Drop an image to pick colours
Click anywhere on it for the exact HEX and RGB values
Runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Picking a colour
Drop an image in and click any point on it. The tool reads that pixel from the original full-resolution image, not the scaled preview, so the value you get is exact rather than an approximation from a resized copy.
Both HEX and RGB are shown, and clicking a swatch copies the HEX to your clipboard.
The dominant palette
Underneath, six colours are extracted automatically along with the share of the image each one covers. This works by sampling the image down and grouping near-identical shades into buckets, then ranking those buckets by how many pixels fell into them.
The result is a practical palette rather than a mathematically perfect one: it tells you what the image actually looks like at a glance, which is what you want when matching a design to a photograph.
Percentages help you tell a genuine brand colour from an incidental one — a colour covering 30 per cent of the image is structural, one covering 2 per cent is a detail.
What to use it for
Matching a design to a photograph — pulling accent colours from a hero image so a page feels coherent.
Recovering a brand colour when you have a logo image but no brand guide, which is a very common situation.
Checking a screenshot for the exact shade a design system uses, when you cannot open the source file.
Building a palette from a reference photo, which is a standard starting point in both interior and interface design.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The pixels are read locally through the Canvas API. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged, and the tool works offline once the page has loaded.
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FAQ
Questions, answered
Everything you need to know about the Image Color Picker.
Drop the image in and click the point you want. The HEX and RGB values appear immediately, and clicking the swatch copies the HEX code.
