PixKit
Free · 100% local · No sign-up

Extract a color palette from any image

Pull the dominant colors out of any photo or graphic and copy their hex codes instantly. Everything runs in your browser — your image never leaves your device.

Drop images to start editing

Add one or many — PNG, JPG & WebP. Or paste with /Ctrl + V

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No upload — fully private Free & unlimited Works offline

How do I get the hex colors from an image?

Load the image into PixKit's Palette tool, choose how many colors you want (2 to 8) and click Extract palette. PixKit samples the pixels in your browser, ranks the most frequent color groups, and lists each as a swatch with its hex code and a one-click Copy button. Free, read-only, nothing uploaded.

A private image toolkit, not just a watermark remover

Clean the Gemini sparkle, then finish the job — crop, resize, convert and adjust without uploading a single pixel.

Lossless watermark removal

Reverse-alpha math restores the true pixels under the Gemini logo — no blur, no AI guesswork.

Crop & resize

Crop to any aspect ratio with draggable handles, then resize to exact pixels or quick scales.

Convert & compress

Export to PNG, JPG or WebP with a quality slider and a live file-size estimate.

100% private

Every tool runs locally with undo/redo. Nothing is uploaded — it even works offline.

Extract a palette in 3 steps

From image to copyable hex codes in seconds, all on your device.

Load an image

Drag in, paste, or pick any photo, mockup or screenshot, then open the Palette tool from the rail.

Pick a count and extract

Set the Colors slider anywhere from 2 to 8 and click Extract palette. PixKit samples the pixels and ranks the dominant colors right in your browser.

Copy your hex codes

Review the swatch bar and the per-color rows, then hit Copy next to any hex value to send it straight to your clipboard.

What people extract palettes for

Brand colors from a logo

Drop in a logo and get its exact hex values for style guides, pitch decks and matching merchandise — no eyedropper guesswork.

CSS themes from mockups

Turn a design screenshot into custom properties in seconds: extract, copy each hex, paste into your stylesheet.

Slides that match a hero photo

Pull 4–5 colors from a presentation's key image and reuse them for headings, accents and charts so the whole deck feels intentional.

Interior and wardrobe matching

Extract the dominant tones from a room or outfit photo to match paint, furniture or accessories against real hex values.

Illustration and game references

Build a working palette from concept art or a reference photo, then paint with the exact same colors in your art tool.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about extracting color palettes with PixKit.

Is the color palette extractor really free?+
Yes. PixKit is completely free with no sign-up, no watermark and no usage limits.
Is my photo analyzed locally when extracting colors?+
Yes — 100% locally. Your image is decoded into canvas pixels on your device and the sampling, bucketing and ranking all happen in your browser. Nothing is ever sent to a server.
How many colors can I extract?+
Anywhere from 2 to 8 colors. Use the slider to pick how many dominant colors you want, then click Extract palette.
How do I copy a color's hex code?+
Each extracted color gets its own row with a swatch, its uppercase hex value, and a Copy button — click Copy and the hex lands on your clipboard, ready to paste into CSS or a design tool.
How does PixKit choose the dominant colors?+
It step-samples about 20,000 pixels, groups similar colors into buckets, ranks the buckets by frequency, and averages each top bucket into one representative color — so the palette reflects what your eye actually sees most.
Why doesn't the palette show near-identical shades twice?+
A distinctness filter skips colors that sit too close to one already chosen, so instead of five almost-equal blues you get a genuinely varied palette. If your image truly has few distinct colors, the list tops up from the next most frequent ones.
Does it work on transparent PNGs?+
Yes. Near-transparent pixels are skipped during sampling, so a cut-out subject's palette isn't diluted by its empty background. A fully transparent image reports that there are no colors to extract.
Does extracting a palette change my image?+
No. This tool is read-only — it only analyzes your image and never modifies, recompresses or overwrites it.

Build color palettes from your images, privately

PixKit reads the pixels of your image right in the browser and surfaces its most dominant colors as clean, copyable hex swatches. Designers, developers and content creators can grab a palette from a photo, mockup or screenshot in seconds — no accounts, no installs and no uploads to any server.

How the extraction works

The tool step-samples your image (around 20,000 pixels, so even huge photos analyze instantly), groups similar colors into buckets and ranks them by how often they appear. It averages each top bucket to a representative color and filters out near-duplicates, so the palette you get is distinct and faithful to the original. Near-transparent pixels are skipped so a PNG's empty background never pollutes the result.

Copy hex codes in one click

Choose between 2 and 8 colors with the slider and hit Extract. You get a full-width palette bar plus a row for every color showing its swatch and uppercase hex value — press the Copy button beside any of them and it lands on your clipboard, ready for CSS, a design file, or your brand guidelines.

Read-only by design

Palette extraction never touches your image. It only analyzes the canvas pixels — no recompression, no resizing, no overwriting — so you can pull colors mid-edit without affecting anything else you're doing in the editor.

Color Palette: local vs. cloud tools

PixKitTypical online tools
Where your image is processedOn your device — nothing is uploadedUploaded to the tool's servers
Price, accounts & limitsNo sign-up or usage credits; browser safety limits applyFree-tier caps, accounts, paywalls
Speed on large filesNo upload or queue; speed depends on the deviceUpload, wait in queue, download
Works offlineYes — installs as a PWANo connection, no tool
AnalysisSmart step-sampling — instant results even on very large photosFull upload first; large files can time out or get resized
Palette qualityNear-duplicate shades filtered out, transparent pixels ignoredOften returns several almost-identical tones
Your image afterwardsRead-only — the image is analyzed, never modified or recompressedMay recompress or keep a server-side copy

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