Image Color Picker

Sample any pixel's exact color

Click anywhere on the loaded image and the tool reads that pixel's precise color, showing both hex and RGB and letting you copy either with one click. Each pick is added to a recent-colors strip for easy reuse.

Sampling happens directly on the canvas in your browser — your image is never uploaded.

Handy for

• Matching colors from a screenshot or photo
• Grabbing brand colors from a logo
• Building a palette pixel by pixel

Key features at a glance

• Click any pixel to sample its exact color
• Shows both hex and RGB values
• One-click copy of either format
• Keeps a history strip of recent picks
• 100% in-browser — your image is never uploaded
• Works offline once the page has loaded

How sampling a pixel's color works

When you click on the image, the tool reads the precise color of the pixel under your cursor from the canvas. Every pixel stores its color as red, green, and blue values (and sometimes transparency), and the picker reports exactly those numbers — there is no approximation or nearest-match guessing. What you click is the exact color you get.

It presents that color in two forms: hexadecimal, the compact code used in CSS and design tools, and RGB, the three channel values. These are two notations for the same color, and having both means you can copy whichever your task needs without converting. The recent-picks history keeps each color you sample, so you can quickly build up a set from different parts of an image.

Why pick colors from an image

Sometimes the color you need lives inside an image rather than in a palette. You might want to match a website's accent to a color in a hero photo, pull the exact brand color from a logo screenshot, or identify a shade you admire in a piece of art. Eyeballing and guessing the hex code is unreliable, especially with subtle tones; sampling the actual pixel gives you the true value instantly.

This is a routine task in design and front-end work. Recreating a color from a reference, ensuring a graphic matches an existing element, or extracting colors a client likes from their materials all depend on reading exact values from images. An image color picker turns any picture into a source of precise, copyable colors, which is far faster and more accurate than trying to reproduce a color by sight.

Building a palette pick by pick

The recent-colors history makes the picker more than a one-shot eyedropper. By clicking around an image, you can collect its key colors into a strip and reuse them, effectively assembling a custom palette from the parts of an image that matter to you. This gives you more control than automatic extraction, because you choose exactly which points to sample.

This manual approach complements automatic palette extraction. Where an extractor returns the statistically dominant colors, picking by hand lets you grab a specific highlight, a particular shadow, or an exact accent that an automatic tool might overlook. For precise design work — matching, theming, recreating — the deliberate pixel-by-pixel method ensures you capture the precise colors you intend rather than an algorithm's best guess.

Tips for picking colors from images

• Zoom or use a large image to click precisely on the right pixel
• Copy hex for CSS and design tools, RGB when code needs channels
• Use the history strip to gather several colors into a palette
• Sample highlights and shadows, not just the main color, for depth
• For dominant colors automatically, use the palette extractor instead

Why choose our image color picker?

Our picker is completely free with no signup, no limits, and no subscription. Sampling happens directly on the canvas in your browser, so your image is never uploaded, picks are instant, and the tool works offline.

It is one of more than 200 free tools on ToopTools, and you can pin it to your My Workspace, a personalized workspace where you keep the tools you use most in a single dashboard. Beside the palette extractor and the color and CSS tools, it makes grabbing exact colors from images effortless.

Common use cases

Designers and developers use the image color picker to match colors from a screenshot or photo, to grab a brand color from a logo, and to read the exact value of a shade they want to reproduce. It turns any image into a precise source of copyable colors.

It is also used to build palettes pick by pick, to identify colors in reference art or competitor designs, and to verify that a color in a mockup matches a target. Because it reports both hex and RGB and keeps a history, it fits straight into a design or coding workflow.

Is the image color picker free?

Yes. It is completely free with no account, no sign-up, and no usage limits. Pick as many colors as you like at no cost.

Does it give the exact color of a pixel?

Yes. The picker reads the precise red, green, and blue values of the pixel you click from the canvas, with no approximation, and reports them as hex and RGB.

Can I copy the color in hex and RGB?

Yes. Both formats are shown for each pick, each with a copy button, so you can grab hex for CSS or RGB when your code needs the individual channels.

Does it remember the colors I pick?

Yes. Each color you sample is added to a recent-picks strip, so you can collect several colors from an image and reuse them to build a palette.

Is my image uploaded to a server?

No. Sampling happens entirely in your browser on the canvas, so your image never leaves your device. The tool is private and works without an internet connection.

How is this different from the palette extractor?

The picker lets you sample exact colors by clicking specific points, while the palette extractor automatically returns an image's most dominant colors. Use the picker for precise, deliberate picks and the extractor for an overall palette.

How do I pick a color from an image?

Upload your image and click anywhere on it — the tool reads the exact color of that pixel and shows its hex and RGB values, ready to copy. It is the quickest way to grab a precise color from a photo, screenshot, or design.

Does the image color picker work offline?

Yes. The picking happens entirely in your browser, so once the page has loaded the tool works without an internet connection, and your image is never uploaded — it stays private on your own device.