How to Extract Dominant Colors from Inspiration Photos

Building a cohesive brand identity starts with color. If you've ever found an incredible photograph or seen a competitor's website and thought, "I love those colors," you know the struggle of trying to manually guess the HEX codes.

Color Quantization

Extracting the dominant colors from an image involves analyzing thousands of pixels and grouping them. You can read more about the math behind this on Wikipedia's Color Quantization page.

Extract Instantly

Our free Color Palette Extractor uses an algorithm to find the dominant color and a beautiful 5-color palette from any image you upload. Because it runs locally using the Canvas API, your inspiration photos are never uploaded to a server.