Image Color Picker
Click any pixel of an image to read its colour as HEX, RGB and HSL — with a zoomed loupe under the cursor — and get the picture's dominant palette extracted automatically by median cut.
The eyedropper the web forgot
Design tools have eyedroppers; browsers mostly do not, and the ones that do hide it deep in devtools. This page is the missing dropper with a memory: the loupe shows the exact pixel grid under your cursor so you can hit a 1-pixel border, and every picked colour lands in a small history you can copy from.
The palette row answers the other everyday question — what are this image's colours as a scheme — with the same six swatches a designer would eyeball, computed instead of guessed.
Frequently asked questions
How is the dominant palette computed?
By median cut, the classic quantisation algorithm: all pixels start in one box, the box is repeatedly split at the median of its widest colour channel, and each final box is averaged. It is deterministic — the same image always yields the same palette, ordered by how much of the image each colour covers.
Why do my picked values differ from another app's?
Usually colour management: browsers decode images into sRGB, while design apps may show the file's embedded profile (Display P3 photos from phones are common). The values here are the sRGB pixels a website would actually render.
Can I pick from a screenshot directly?
Yes — copy the screenshot and press Ctrl+V (⌘V) on this page; it loads without a file dialog. That makes the tool a quick answer to 'what colour is that button on this site'.
Why six palette colours and not more?
Six is where palettes stop being schemes and start being inventories. Median cut can produce any count, but design guidance converges on 4–6 swatches; if you need every colour, the click-anywhere dropper already is that.
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