Color Palette From Image

The tool scales your image down to at most 200 pixels on its longest side, samples its pixels and groups similar colors together with k-means clustering. Each group becomes one swatch, and its color is the average of the pixels in it. That means the palette shows the colors that cover the most area, not rare highlights.

• Transparent pixels are ignored, so a logo on a transparent background gives you the logo colors, not a gray or white fill.
• Results are ordered from lightest to darkest, which makes it easy to spot a background, a text color and accents.
• Each swatch shows HEX and RGB. Copy gives you the HEX code; Copy All copies every HEX code as a comma-separated list.
• Runs can differ slightly. Clustering starts from random picks, so extracting twice can shift a shade or two. If one run misses a color you care about, press Extract Colors again or raise the number of colors.

Because the image is scaled down before analysis, extraction is fast even for large photos, and very small details such as a thin colored line may not show up as their own swatch. That is usually what you want from a palette: the colors that define the overall look of the picture.

The palette is only as good as the image you feed it. A few ways to get more useful results:

• Crop first. If you only want the colors of a product or logo, cut away the background with Crop Image, or remove it completely with the Background Remover so the transparent area is ignored.
• Pick the right count. Five or six colors suit most brand and UI palettes. Use 8 to 12 for detailed artwork or when you want extra shades.
• Watch out for large backgrounds. A photo that is mostly sky will give you several blues. Crop closer to the subject to bring out other colors.
• Check contrast before using a pair for text. Two colors that look great together in a photo may not be readable as text on a background.

For a clean palette image to share, take a screenshot of the swatches, or paste the HEX list into your design tool.

For accessible text, a common rule of thumb is to pair your lightest and darkest swatches, and to test any mid-tone pair with a contrast checker before using it for body text.

Once you have your colors, put them to work:

• Generate on-brand illustrations or backgrounds with the AI Image Generator by including the color names or HEX codes in your prompt.
• Create a matching YouTube cover with the AI Thumbnail Generator.
• Build a presentation around your colors with the AI Presentation Maker.
• Stamp your images in a brand color with the free Watermark Maker.

If you are not sure what is in an image in the first place, the AI Image Describer can describe it in words.

Color palettes also help with consistency across a project. Extract a palette once from your hero image or logo and reuse the same HEX codes for buttons, headings, charts and social graphics. Keeping to four to six colors, with one or two accents, usually looks cleaner than using every color in the photo.

Everything runs in your browser: the image is read by the page, analyzed on a hidden canvas and never uploaded to RegiAI.