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Image Color Picker — HEX & RGB From Any Picture

Drop in an image and click any pixel to read its exact color — HEX, RGB, and HSL, each one click from your clipboard. The tool also extracts the picture's dominant palette automatically, so a screenshot, a product photo, or a sunset becomes a ready-to-use color scheme. Free, in your browser, nothing uploaded.

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What it does
Click a pixel → HEX/RGB/HSL
Bonus
Auto dominant palette
Where it runs
100% in your browser
Price
Free · unlimited

The eyedropper, without the editor around it

Every design suite ships an eyedropper — behind a launch screen, a project file, and a learning curve. This page is just the eyedropper: exact pixel values in HEX, RGB, and HSL, a swatch history, and an automatic dominant palette, all running locally on the image you drop in. For the ten-times-a-week task of 'what color is that?', the shortest tool wins.

How to pick colors from an image

Three steps from picture to palette.

  1. 1

    Drop in an image

    PNG, JPG, WebP, or GIF — it loads on your device and the dominant palette appears immediately.

  2. 2

    Click any pixel

    The exact HEX, RGB, and HSL values appear — every pick joins your swatch history.

  3. 3

    Copy and use

    One click copies any value or swatch — paste it into CSS, design tools, or an AI prompt.

Get the HEX code from an image — exactly, not approximately

Eyeballing a color and searching 'light teal hex' gets you close-ish; clicking the actual pixel gets you the number. This picker reads the true value of the pixel you click — no averaging, no guessing — and hands you the same color in the three notations designers and developers actually paste: HEX for CSS and design tools, RGB for code, HSL for tweaking lightness without changing the hue.

  • Pixel-exact reads — The value comes from the image data itself, not a screen capture — what the file says, you get.
  • HEX · RGB · HSL — All three notations shown at once; click any of them and it's on your clipboard.
  • A history that keeps up — Every pick lands in a swatch row, so comparing five candidate blues doesn't mean re-clicking them.

Extract a color palette from any picture — automatically

Beyond single pixels, the tool scans the whole image the moment it loads and surfaces its dominant colors as a ready palette. That's the fast path from 'I like this photo's mood' to a usable scheme: a brand shot becomes the accent colors for the deck, a competitor's screenshot reveals its exact UI palette, a holiday photo becomes a wedding color scheme. Click any swatch to copy its HEX.

  • Dominant colors, ranked — The most-used colors in the image, averaged cleanly per region — not just the loudest pixels.
  • One click to copy — Every swatch — picked or extracted — copies its HEX code the moment you click it.
  • Great with screenshots — Point it at any app or website screenshot to recover the exact palette it's built on.

Private, free, and faster than opening an editor

Design suites can do this, after a splash screen, a project file, and finding the eyedropper. This page does it in the time the image takes to load — and because the reading happens in your browser's canvas, the image itself never uploads anywhere. Unreleased product shots, client work, personal photos: they stay on your machine while you take the colors.

  • Nothing is uploaded — Pixel reads happen locally. Close the tab and no copy of your image exists anywhere else.
  • No account, no limit — Pick colors from as many images as you like — there's no quota because there's no server.
  • Any common format — PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF — if your browser can show it, the picker can read it.

Who's asking 'what color is that?'

The picker earns its bookmark in three jobs.

Designers & developers

Recover exact brand colors from logos and mockups, or lift a UI palette from any screenshot.

Creators & marketers

Match your thumbnail text and story stickers to the photo behind them — cohesion is one click away.

Planners & decorators

Turn an inspiration photo into a named color scheme for the wedding, the room, or the rebrand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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