Image Palette Extractor

Extract a colour palette and dominant colours from any image using median-cut quantization, plus its average colour. Processed locally; never uploaded.

How to use Image Palette Extractor: Open Image Palette Extractor — it runs entirely in your browser with no setup. Paste or type your input into the text area, or upload a file where supported. Set any options you need. The result appears in the output panel — there is no upload step and no waiting on a server. Everything runs inside your browser, so your data never leaves your device.

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Extract a colour palette and dominant colours from any image. Processed locally; never uploaded.

Extract a colour palette and dominant colours from any image using median-cut quantization, plus its average colour. Processed locally; never uploaded. Image Palette Extractor is a free, browser-based tool in the Filevane color tools collection — there is nothing to install, no account to create and no watermark on your results. It works on desktop, tablet and mobile, and because the work happens on your own device it stays fast even with large inputs.

How to use Image Palette Extractor

Open Image Palette Extractor — it runs entirely in your browser with no setup.
Paste or type your input into the text area, or upload a file where supported.
Set any options you need. The result appears in the output panel — there is no upload step and no waiting on a server.
Review the output instantly; large inputs are handled locally without lag.
Copy the result to your clipboard or download it. Your data never leaves the page.

Why use Image Palette Extractor?

100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
Private by design — your data are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
Part of a full color tools suite, so related image palette extractor tasks are one click away.

What people use Image Palette Extractor for

Pulling a colour scheme out of a photograph for a design.
Finding the dominant colours in a product image for a page theme.
Building a palette that matches a piece of artwork.

Image Palette Extractor: limits and things worth knowing

Colours are found by clustering the image's pixels, so the result reflects how much AREA each colour covers rather than how prominent it looks. A small vivid accent may not appear at all.
Photographs contain thousands of distinct colours; a palette is a summary and always a lossy one.
Extracted colours frequently fail contrast requirements when used for text. Check them before using any of them for type.
The image is read by your browser and never uploaded.

Is it private and secure?

Your privacy is built in. Image Palette Extractor runs completely on your device, so whatever you enter stays in your browser and is never transmitted, logged or stored on any server.

Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.

You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.

Learn more

Why Browser-Based Tools Are Safer for Your Files — Most online converters upload your files to a server. Client-side tools don't. Here's why that difference matters for privacy.

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