Get the exact colour from an image.

The three ways to get an image in

• Paste. Copy an image anywhere — a screenshot, a browser image, a file — and press paste on this page. Nothing to click first.
• Drag. Drop a file anywhere on the page, not just on the box.
• Upload. Click the box and choose a file. JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and AVIF all work, including transparent PNGs — see-through pixels are skipped rather than counted as whatever is behind them.

Screenshots

A screenshot is the most reliable way to get a colour out of something you cannot download — a website, an app, a video still. Take the screenshot, paste it here, and pick the pixel you want. Because screenshots are flat and uncompressed, the colour you get back is exact rather than approximate.

Colours from a logo

Logos are usually flat colour, which makes them the easiest case: the extracted palette will normally be the brand colours themselves rather than an approximation. If a logo sits on a background you do not want, crop it first, or pick the colours directly off the mark instead of extracting a palette from the whole image.

What you cannot get this way

A colour on screen is what the file says plus whatever your display does to it. If you need print-accurate colour, treat the CMYK figure Palettae shows as an approximation and convert properly in the software you will actually print from. It is honest about being a rough device conversion for exactly this reason.

Want a whole palette rather than one colour? The palette extractor pulls out the dominant colours and tells you how much of the image each one covers.