Free Color Picker Extract colors from any image instantly
Upload any image and instantly extract HEX, RGB, RGBA and HSL color codes. Generate beautiful color palettes for web design, branding, graphics, UI/UX projects, logos and creative work.
Uploaded Image
Color Palette
Pick Colors from Here
Use Your Own Image
Upload any JPG, PNG or WEBP image and click anywhere on the image to instantly detect the exact color code. Great for designers, developers and branding experts.
How Color Sampling Works, and What Each Code Means
When you click a point on the image, this tool reads the exact pixel at that coordinate using the browser's HTML5 Canvas API, which returns the red, green, and blue intensity values (0–255 each) stored at that pixel. Everything else — the HEX code, the HSL values — is derived mathematically from that single RGB reading, not fetched from anywhere else.
Worked example: a sampled pixel with RGB values
(37, 150, 190) is converted to HEX by writing each value in base-16:
37 → 25, 150 → 96, 190 → be,
giving #2596be. The same RGB values are converted to HSL by
finding the maximum and minimum of the three channels to work out
lightness, then deriving hue from which channel (R, G, or B) is
dominant — for this pixel, that comes out to roughly
196°, 67%, 45% (a mid-tone blue).
Why three formats for one color: HEX (like
#2596be) is the standard format in CSS stylesheets and most
design software, and is the most compact to paste into code. RGB is more
intuitive when a developer needs to programmatically blend or compare
colors, since each channel is a plain number. HSL is usually easier for a
human to reason about when adjusting a color — for example, lowering the
"L" value darkens a color while keeping its hue and saturation identical,
something that's not obvious to do by eye in HEX or RGB.
Everything happens on your device. The image you upload is decoded and read directly in your browser's canvas — it is never sent to a server, uploaded, or stored, which is why the tool works instantly with no upload progress bar or processing delay.
Beyond Matching a Color: Checking Contrast for Real Use
Pulling a color out of a reference image is only the first step for most design work — the color also has to work in context. A few things worth checking once you've sampled a color:
Text contrast (WCAG)
Web accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.1) require a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 between normal body text and its background. A color that looks fine as a brand accent can fail badly as text-on-background — it's worth running any sampled HEX code through a dedicated contrast checker before using it for readable text.
Screen vs. print color shift
RGB and HEX describe how a color is displayed on a screen (an additive, light-based color model). Printed materials use CMYK (a subtractive, ink-based model), and the conversion isn't exact — a vivid on-screen blue sampled here may look slightly duller once printed, so it's worth checking a physical proof for branding that spans both digital and print.
Sampling from compressed images
JPEG compression can subtly shift individual pixel colors near edges and gradients due to how the format encodes data in blocks. If you're sampling a brand color for exact reuse, a PNG or the original source file will give a more reliable reading than a heavily compressed JPEG.
Building a palette, not just one color
A single sampled color rarely stands alone in a design. Try sampling 2–3 points from the same image (a highlight, a midtone, and a shadow) to see the natural color relationships already present, rather than picking one color and inventing the rest from scratch.
How to Use the Color Picker
Upload Image
Upload JPG, PNG or WEBP images easily.
Click Any Area
Click anywhere on the image to detect exact colors.
View Results
Instantly see HEX, RGB and HSL color codes.
Copy & Use
Copy color codes for websites, graphics and branding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Explore More SA Tools
Discover more free online tools for productivity, PDFs, images, calculations, SEO and daily tasks.