How to Pick a Color From an Image

A color picker identifies the numeric value of a color so it can be reused exactly. On screens, every color is made from red, green, and blue light, each from 0 to 255. An image color picker reads those values from a specific pixel in a picture and shows them in formats your tools understand.

1. Open your image in the picker by uploading, dragging, or pasting it.
2. Click the spot you want to sample; the tool reads that exact pixel.
3. Zoom to 200%, 400%, or 800% and scroll if you need to target a tiny area.
4. Copy the HEX, RGB, or HSL value and paste it into your project.

• HEX is a compact code like #3B82F6, the standard for CSS.
• RGB lists the red, green, and blue values from 0 to 255, such as 59, 130, 246.
• HSL uses hue, saturation, and lightness (217, 91%, 60%), which makes lightening or darkening a shade easier.

Beyond single pixels, you can extract a palette from the whole image. The tool groups similar colors into buckets and returns a set of representative swatches you can copy. Because palettes are approximations, treat them as a strong starting point for a brand kit or theme rather than an exhaustive list of every color.

Designers match buttons and backgrounds to a mockup, marketers recover brand colors from a logo, and developers drop sampled HEX or RGB values straight into CSS variables. Because everything runs in your browser, the image never leaves your device.