Pull beautiful color palettes from photographs, artwork, and nature. Learn how color extraction works and how to use it for your design projects.
Every great design starts with color. And some of the best color palettes do not come from color theory textbooks — they come from photographs, nature, artwork, and the real world.
Color extraction is the process of identifying the dominant colors in an image and presenting them as a usable palette. It is one of the fastest ways to find harmonious color combinations that actually work, because nature and skilled photographers have already done the hard work of making those colors look good together.
Color extraction algorithms analyze every pixel in an image, group similar colors together, and identify the most prominent clusters. The most common approaches are: