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Inspection
Pick colours from an image
Click a pixel to read its value, or let the page work out the handful of colours the image is mostly made of.
Picked
Dominant palette
A single pixel is rarely the colour you want
Photographs are noisy. Two neighbouring pixels in what looks like a flat wall can differ by several values in each channel, and JPEG compression adds its own drift, especially near edges. This tool averages a small area around your click rather than reading one pixel, which gets you much closer to the colour you think you are pointing at.
The palette is built by grouping similar colours into buckets and ranking them by how much of the image they cover, so it reports what dominates rather than what is most saturated. For a brand colour taken from a logo, click directly instead: logos are flat and the reading will be exact.
Common questions
Why does the same wall give slightly different codes?
Because it genuinely is slightly different, thanks to lighting, sensor noise and compression. If you need one value, sample two or three spots and take the middle.
Can I get the colour as HSL?
The picker reports hex and RGB. For HSL and other formats, paste the hex into the colour converter.
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