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Color Palette Extractor
Pull the dominant colors out of an image and copy them as a palette.
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About Color Palette Extractor
Pulls the dominant colours out with histogram quantisation and near-colour merging, which keeps the result deterministic — the same image always yields the same palette.
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The algorithm is histogram quantisation plus near-colour merging: each channel keeps its high 4 bits into at most 4096 buckets, ranked by hits, then merged by a perceptually weighted distance (redmean).
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That makes the result deterministic — the same image always yields the same palette, unlike k-means with its random initialisation, and it can be verified independently with solid-colour test images.
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Fully transparent pixels are skipped and large images are sampled at a fixed stride, so the reported share is a sampled ratio rather than an exact per-pixel count.
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Upload an image
A photo, screenshot or logo.
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Read palette and share
Each swatch carries a percentage of the sampled pixels.
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Copy the values
HEX is ready to use; crop out the background first for a more useful palette.
Ranking is by pixel count, so a large background usually wins while a small saturated accent loses. Crop the background away and the extraction will match your judgement.
Because this is a deterministic pipeline (quantise, then merge by distance threshold) rather than k-means with random seeds. Reproducibility is deliberate; the trade-off is less nuance than a clustering method.
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