Free Color Palette Generator
Extract dominant colors from your images to create cohesive palettes for your design projects. Fast, secure, and processes entirely in your browser.
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JPG, PNG, WebP supportedWhy Use a Color Palette Generator?
Color choices define the overall user experience and branding of your project. Utilizing a cohesive color palette ensures visual harmony, guides your user's attention, and makes text highly readable. Instead of manually guessing hex codes, extracting dominant colors directly from inspiration photos, nature shots, or product graphics helps you build professional schemes matching your visual assets.
Our tool analyzes the image pixels locally using color clustering algorithms, calculating the exact dominant colors without sending your images to external servers.
How the Palette Extraction Works
When you load an image, our tool draws it onto an off-screen HTML5 Canvas. The script then processes the pixel data to group similar colors together and select the most prominent hues based on your preferred color count.
Because everything is calculated on-device in your web browser, you get instant, accurate color palettes and hex codes without any upload wait times or server delays.
Complete Image & Design Toolkit
Color palette extraction fits naturally into a broader design and image workflow. Once you have your hex codes, use our favicon generator to create a favicon from your brand logo that matches your extracted color scheme. If your source image is a PNG with a complex background, run it through our AI background remover first to isolate the subject, then extract colors from the clean cutout for more accurate brand palette results. For vector logos and illustrations, our SVG to PNG converter rasterizes your vector at high resolution so the color extractor can sample all the detail in your design.
To prepare your source images before extraction, use our image resizer to scale them to a consistent size, or our JPG to PNG converter to get a lossless copy for more accurate pixel sampling. Our AI image upscaler can sharpen low-resolution reference photos before palette extraction, giving you cleaner color clusters. For web design workflows, after extracting your palette, use our image to WebP converter to optimize your brand images for fast loading. Our EXIF remover cleans up metadata from any photos you use as design references before sharing them.