Color Tools

Color is the fastest way to make a design look intentional — or wrong.

A palette that works together creates coherence across a brand, a product, a presentation, or a landing page. A palette that fights itself makes every other element feel off, even when nothing is technically broken. These two tools help you find colors that belong together: one reads exact hex codes out of an image you already love, the other generates new harmonies from a single base color.

Both tools run entirely in your browser. Your images and colors never leave your device. No uploads, no accounts, no cost.

Extract colors from any image

The Color Palette Extractor reads the dominant colors from any image you upload and returns them as HEX codes you can copy with one click. It analyzes the image pixel by pixel, clusters similar colors, and returns the top palette sorted by prominence.

Common uses:

• Brand matching. Have a logo but no brand guidelines? Extract the exact hex of every color used in the logo, ready for CSS, Figma, or a brand deck.
• Moodboard-to-palette. Found a photo that perfectly captures the mood you want? Extract its colors and use them directly.
• Screenshot-to-hex. Someone sent you a design you like but only as a screenshot? Upload it and pull the exact hex codes.
• Color consistency audits. Extract the palette from a live page screenshot to verify your design tokens are being used consistently.

Generate harmonious palettes

The Color Palette Generator takes a single base color and produces five classic color harmonies used by designers everywhere:

• Complementary — two colors directly opposite on the color wheel. Highest contrast, most energetic. Great for call-to-action buttons on a neutral background.
• Analogous — three colors adjacent to each other. Soft, unified, low-contrast. Good for backgrounds, illustrations, and gradient direction.
• Triadic — three colors evenly spaced on the wheel. Balanced and vibrant. Popular in playful brands and children’s products.
• Tetradic — four colors in two complementary pairs. Rich and varied. Requires careful use of hierarchy — the palette is energetic but busy.
• Monochromatic — one hue at different saturations and lightnesses. Safe, elegant, professional. The default for minimalist interfaces.

How to use these together

The natural workflow is: extract first, generate second.

1. Upload a reference image (a photo, a logo, a competitor’s site screenshot) to the Extractor.
2. Copy the base color you want to build around.
3. Paste that hex into the Generator and pick a harmony.
4. Copy the resulting palette into your design tool.

You end up with a palette that is both grounded in a real reference and mathematically harmonious — the best of both approaches.

A note on color models

Both tools display colors as HEX (the standard for CSS and design tools) and RGB. Internally, harmonies are computed in HSL, which is why generated palettes look perceptually balanced across all five schemes. If you need CMYK values for print, convert from the HEX value in your design tool — the difference between RGB and CMYK display can be significant on saturated oranges and blues.

Related tools

If you are building a full brand kit, pair these with the Logo Resizer (every logo size from one upload) and the Favicon Generator (complete favicon set for your website) from the Image Tools and Developer Tools categories.