Color Picker

Get the Exact Color — Not Your Best Guess

There’s a real difference between the teal in a client’s logo and every other shade of teal. Getting it wrong — even slightly — is the difference between a design that feels on-brand and one that gets kicked back in review. Most developers and designers don’t have Photoshop open at all times. What they have is a browser.

Upload any image — a logo, a screenshot, a mood board, a product photo — hover over any pixel, and see its HEX and RGB values update in real time. Click to lock the color and copy it to your clipboard.

What You Can Do With This Tool

• Extract brand colors from a company’s logo or marketing material for design consistency
• Match colors from a screenshot when building UI that needs to replicate an existing design
• Pull color values from a mood board or inspiration image for a new project’s palette
• Identify specific shades in a gradient or photograph for CSS or design software
• Build a color palette by sampling multiple points across an image
• Verify that a printed design and a digital design match in color value

Who Uses an Image Color Picker?

UI/UX Designers

When building a design system or creating assets for a client, brand consistency requires knowing exact color values. Rather than guessing or asking the client to dig up their style guide, upload the logo and extract what you need directly.

Front-End Developers

Implementing a design in code means translating visual colors to hex values. If the design file isn’t available or the exported spec is incomplete, extract the colors directly from a screenshot of the design.

Digital Marketers

Creating social assets, display ads, or email graphics that match the client’s brand without access to the original design files? Extract the primary colors from any published asset and use them as the foundation for new materials.

Content Creators

Building YouTube thumbnails, Instagram graphics, or presentation decks that match a color theme from a reference image? Extract the dominant or accent colors and build your palette around them.

Print & Product Designers

When translating digital color specifications to print or product manufacturing, extracting the exact digital value is the first step before converting to CMYK or Pantone equivalents.

Understanding HEX and RGB Color Formats

HEX (Hexadecimal)

A HEX color code like #1A73E8 represents red, green, and blue values as two-digit hexadecimal numbers. This is the standard format for web CSS, SVG, and most design tools. HEX values are a compact, copy-paste-ready way to specify colors in code.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue)

RGB notation like rgb(26, 115, 232) expresses color as three values between 0 and 255. This format maps directly to how screens produce color and is often preferred in JavaScript, certain CSS contexts, and image processing pipelines where you need to manipulate individual channels.

How It Works

When you upload an image, it’s drawn onto an HTML5 canvas element entirely in your browser. When you hover or click, the tool reads the pixel’s color data at that coordinate using the canvas context’s getImageData() method and converts the raw RGBA values to both HEX and RGB formats. Your image is never uploaded to a server — the entire operation is local.

Frequently Asked Questions