Color palette from a photo
Upload a room photo, fabric swatch, or inspiration pic (including iPhone HEIC) and pull out its dominant colors as hex codes.
Click or drop a photo here
How it works
The photo is drawn onto a small (100×100) canvas to keep processing fast, then every opaque pixel is sorted into a bucket by rounding its red, green, and blue values to the nearest 32 — a simple form of color quantization — and the six most populous buckets become your palette, each shown as the average color of the pixels inside it. iPhone HEIC/HEIF photos are converted to JPEG first using the heic2any library, since browsers can't decode HEIC natively.
FAQ
- Why does the palette group similar colors together instead of showing exact pixel colors?
- Because a real photo has thousands of nearly-identical shades of each color — bucketing every pixel's RGB values to the nearest 32 (a technique called quantization) groups those near-duplicates together so the six swatches represent genuinely distinct dominant colors instead of six near-identical shades.
- Does uploading an HEIC photo send it anywhere for conversion?
- No — the HEIC-to-JPEG conversion runs in your browser using a JavaScript library (heic2any); your photo is never uploaded to a server at any point.
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