Image Color Palette Generator
Dominant Color
Color Palette (6 Colors)
How to Use the Color Palette Generator
- Drag and drop any image (JPG, PNG, WebP) into the upload box.
- The tool will instantly analyze the image and display a preview.
- Below the preview, you will see two sections:
- Dominant Color: The single most prominent color in your image.
- Color Palette: A set of 6 complementary colors extracted from the photo.
- Click on any color swatch to copy its HEX code (e.g.,
#1a2b3c) to your clipboard. - The RGB value (e.g.,
rgb(26, 43, 60)) is also shown for your convenience.
What Can You Do With a Color Palette?
Extracting colors from an image is incredibly useful for designers, developers, digital artists, and marketing professionals. It helps you build beautiful, harmonious designs.
1. Website and App Design
If you have a stunning "hero" image for your website, you can use this tool to extract its main colors. Use the dominant color for your buttons (call-to-action) and the other palette colors for backgrounds, text, and borders. This ensures your entire website's design matches the main branding image.
2. Creating Social Media Graphics
When creating graphics for Instagram or Pinterest, you can upload your main photo, extract the palette, and then use those exact colors for your text, borders, and graphic elements. This creates a cohesive, professional-looking social media feed.
3. Data Visualization & Presentations
Instead of using the default colors in PowerPoint or Google Slides, use a palette from a photo that matches your topic. If you're giving a presentation on nature, upload a forest photo and use the resulting greens and browns for your charts and graphs.
4. Interior Design & Fashion
Find a photo of a room or outfit you love. Upload it to this tool to get the exact color codes. You can then take those codes to a paint store or use them to find matching furniture and clothing.
Understanding Color Codes: HEX vs. RGB
This tool provides colors in two common formats:
- HEX (Hexadecimal): This is the 6-digit code starting with a
#, like#FFFFFF(white) or#000000(black). It's the most common format used in web design (CSS) and graphic design software. - RGB (Red, Green, Blue): This format defines a color by the intensity of its red, green, and blue components, each on a scale from 0 to 255. For example,
rgb(255, 0, 0)is pure, bright red. This format is also common in CSS and many digital applications.
You can click on any color swatch to copy the HEX code directly.
Explore Our Other Free Image Tools
- Need to see what hidden data is in your photos? Check with our EXIF Data Viewer.
- Want to remove that hidden data for privacy? Use the EXIF Data Remover.
- Need to make your images smaller for your website? Try our Image Compressor & Resizer.