Image Color Picker — Sample Pixels and Extract Palettes
The Image Color Picker lets you load an image, click any pixel, and read its exact color in hex or RGB. It also extracts a dominant palette of up to 6 colors using coarse color quantization, helping you build a scheme from a photo. Processing stays in your browser, so the image is never uploaded.
Image Color Picker is a browser-based tool for sampling colors from an image and exploring its dominant palette. Add an image, click any pixel, and get that pixel’s exact color as a hex or RGB value. The tool also extracts up to 6 dominant colors automatically, offering a useful starting point for a scheme based on a photo.
To inspect a specific color, click directly on the pixel you want to sample. The returned value represents that pixel, while the palette is generated using coarse color quantization. You can review the extracted colors and copy the sampled value you need; the available representations for a sampled pixel are hex and RGB.
Hex and RGB express colors in different ways: hex uses a compact hexadecimal notation, while RGB represents red, green, and blue color channels. Converting a visual reference into one of these values is useful when you need to match a color in a design, compare options, or document a color choice. The automatic palette can also help you explore colors present in a photo.
The Image Color Picker processes the image in your browser. The image is never uploaded or sent to a server, and the tool works offline once the page has loaded. It is free to use, making it useful for developers, DevOps engineers, designers, and anyone who needs to sample or compare image colors without installing a separate tool.
Step 1: Open the Image Color Picker and add or drop in an image. The image is ready for sampling in the browser.
Step 2: Click the pixel whose color you want to inspect. The tool returns that pixel’s exact color rather than an estimate by eye.
Step 3: Read the sampled value in hex or RGB. Use the representation that fits your design or documentation needs.
Step 4: Review the automatically extracted palette of up to 6 dominant colors. It can help you find complementary starting points from the image.
Step 5: Copy the color value you want to use. You can sample another pixel if you need to compare colors.
Use case: Choose an exact image color instead of guessing by eye. Click the pixel and read its value in hex or RGB.
Use case: Match a color value expected by a design or document. The picker provides the sampled color in two common representations.
Use case: Compare colors from different parts of an image before committing to one. Sampling pixels makes it easier to check the exact values.
Use case: Build a starting color scheme from a photo. The automatically extracted palette contains up to 6 dominant colors.
Use case: Inspect a screenshot or mockup when you need to identify a particular pixel color. The browser-based picker makes sampling direct and quick.
Use case: Check a color in a visual reference before using it in a project. Copy the sampled value for use in your design or documentation workflow.