Color Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colors out of any image as HEX values - perfect for mood boards, design systems, and brand kits. Runs locally.
Matching a design system to a photo, a brand's existing visuals, or a piece of inspiration art starts with knowing its actual colors. This tool samples the pixels of any image you drop in and clusters them into a small set of dominant HEX values, computed entirely on a canvas in your browser. It's a quick way to pull a starting palette for a mood board, theme a website around a hero image, or check what colors a competitor's brand actually uses.
Runs on your device. This tool processes your file inside this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, so it also works offline once the page has loaded, and closing the tab discards the file from memory.
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How it works
- 01
Drop or select an image.
- 02
Wait a moment while dominant colors are sampled from its pixels.
- 03
Copy the HEX values you need for your palette.
Details
- Category
- Images
- Runs
- In your browser
- Files uploaded
- No
- Cost per run
- Free
- Sign-in
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes, once loaded
Last updated 2026-08-12
Common questions
How many colors does it extract?
A small curated set of the most dominant colors in the image, ranked by how much of the image they cover.
Does it upload my image?
No - color sampling happens locally on a canvas in your browser.
Can I use this for a brand's exact colors?
It's a close visual match, but photo compression and lighting can shift exact HEX values. Verify against an official brand guide when precision matters.
What format are the results in?
HEX values, ready to paste into CSS, design tools, or a style guide.
Use this from your code
This tool is also a REST endpoint, so you can run it in a pipeline instead of by hand. Each call costs 1 credits and needs an API key. See the API reference for every parameter.
curl -X POST https://fileoven.com/api/v1/tools/color-palette \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \ -F "file=@input.png"