Load a sprite or pixel art image to build a palette from the colors it actually uses.
Pixel Art Palette Extractor
Drop in pixel art, sprites, or other small game assets and this tool will read the exact visible colors from the image, then build a swatch palette with hex codes and usage counts. The extraction runs entirely in your browser, so the image never leaves your device or touches server memory.
Choose a PNG, GIF, WebP, or JPG file to preview and extract its palette.
Zoom in, then click a pixel to highlight its matching color in the extracted palette.
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Export format
Hex list (.txt)
Heads up about the detected colors
This image has more colors than most clean pixel-art palettes. Anti-aliasing, scaling, or JPEG compression may be introducing extra shades.
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Palette export
Extract the palette, then copy or download the current export format from one consistent result area.
Extracted palette
Each swatch shows an exact color pulled from the current image, along with its hex code and how often it appears. Click a swatch to select and highlight it.
What this tool does
It reads the pixels in your image directly in the browser and extracts the exact visible colors into a swatch palette with copyable hex codes.
Why it is private
The extraction happens locally in your browser. Your image is never uploaded, never sent to an API route, and never stored in server memory.
Why it is good for pixel art
Pixel art usually relies on small, intentional color sets. This tool preserves exact colors instead of generating an approximate palette from sampling or clustering.
Helpful note
PNG, GIF, and crisp WebP pixel art usually give the cleanest palette results. JPG compression can add extra near-matching shades that inflate the color count, while the export menu lets you take the palette into other tools afterward.
Use this palette next
After extracting a sprite palette, you can check contrast, turn the colors into CSS, or inspect more photographic artwork with the related color tools.