Frequently Asked Questions
A color picker typically lets you select a single specific color from an image’s exact pixel. A palette extractor automatically analyzes the entire image to find a collection of the most representative and dominant colors.
Yes, absolutely. The hexadecimal (Hex) codes provided are the standard format used in CSS for defining colors. You can simply copy and paste them into your stylesheets.
The tool finds the dominant colors, which are often a mix of the most common shades and hues in the image. It might not pick up on a very small, specific color you are looking at.
The algorithm essentially puts all the colors in your image into a big box and then systematically divides that box into smaller and smaller boxes. The final small boxes represent the color clusters, and the average color of each box becomes a dominant color.
A higher-resolution image with more detail will generally give the algorithm more data to work with, potentially resulting in a more nuanced and accurate palette. However, the tool is designed to work well with most standard image sizes.
Median cut is a specific type of color quantization algorithm that works by repeatedly finding the largest color range (e.g., the widest difference in Red values) and cutting the color space in half along that dimension. This process is repeated until the desired number of colors is found.
Yes, if a significant portion of the image is made up of shadows, highlights, or a neutral background, the algorithm may correctly identify a shade of gray as one of the dominant colors in the palette.
