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Wallpaper colour palette extractor

Drop in any wallpaper and get its six main colours, from the most common down, ready to copy.

Blue Mountain Lake Stag (sample) · Drop another image on the preview to replace it.

    How do I find the colours in a wallpaper?

    Add the image here. The tool shrinks a copy, groups similar pixels together and lists the six colour groups that cover the most of the picture, with how much of it each one covers.

    What the colour palette extractor does

    Colours
    Six, ordered by how much of the image each one covers.
    Formats
    Hex and RGB, each copied with one click.
    Method
    k-means clustering on a 96-pixel-wide copy, the same way MacWall measures its wallpaper colours.
    Privacy
    Worked out in your browser. The image is never uploaded.
    Cost
    Free, with no sign-up.

    How to use it

    1. 1

      Add an image. Drop a wallpaper onto the box or choose a file. A sample loads first so you can see how it works.

    2. 2

      Read the palette. Each swatch shows its share of the image, a plain colour name and its hex value.

    3. 3

      Copy a colour. Click a hex or RGB value to copy it.

    4. 4

      Use it. Pick the closest accent colour in System Settings → Appearance, or use the hex values in your own designs.

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    Minimum macOS 15.0 or later