Palette Extractor

Pull the dominant colours out of any image, or build tints, shades and harmonies from a single base colour.

Your file never leaves the browser. The image is read with FileReader and drawn to a canvas on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere — this page makes no network requests at all.

Choose an image

Image file — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF

Dominant colours

Median-cut quantisation, settled with k-means. Click any swatch to copy its hex. Percentages are the share of sampled pixels in each colour bucket.

Base colour

Base colour — hex, rgb() or hsl()

Generated

Tints — mixed toward white

Shades — mixed toward black

Complementary — hue + 180°

Triadic — hue + 120° and + 240°

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