Best Free Image Color Picker

Hover and click to read the HEX and RGB of any pixel — zoom loupe and swatches, never uploaded.

Upload an image, then hover and click to read the colour of any pixel. Nothing is uploaded — it is read in your browser.
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How it works

  1. Choose an image. Pick any photo or graphic; it is drawn in your browser, not uploaded.
  2. Hover and click. Move over the image to preview colours in the loupe, then click to pick one.
  3. Copy the value. Copy the HEX or RGB, or reuse a colour from the recent swatches strip.

About this tool

Pull the exact colour out of any image without uploading it. Choose a picture and it is drawn onto a canvas right in your browser; move the cursor over it and a magnified loupe shows the pixels under your pointer, with the live HEX and RGB value beside it. Click to lock a colour in, copy the HEX or RGB in one tap, and build up a strip of recent swatches as you sample. Because everything happens on your device via the canvas, the image is never sent anywhere. Advanced options add an HSL readout and a 5×5 averaging mode that smooths over noisy or compressed images so you sample the colour you actually mean.

What people use it for

  • Match a brand colour from a logo or screenshot
  • Sample a palette from a photo for a design
  • Grab the exact HEX of a pixel for CSS
  • Check colours across a mockup without leaving the browser

Frequently asked questions

No. The picture is read with a canvas entirely in your browser, so its pixels never leave your device — it is private and works even offline once the page has loaded.

As you hover, a small magnified circle shows the pixels under the cursor with a marker on the exact one being sampled, so you can target a single pixel precisely.

HEX and RGB by default, with a copy button on each. Turn on HSL in Advanced options when you need hue/saturation/lightness as well.

Instead of reading one pixel it averages a 5×5 block around the cursor, which evens out JPEG noise and dithering so you get the colour the area represents.

They live only in the page while it is open — a quick strip of the colours you have picked, each click-to-copy. Nothing is stored or sent.

There is no fixed cap; it is bounded only by your device memory. Very large images use more RAM while drawing but are not uploaded.

Yes — Image Color Picker is completely free, with no watermark on the output and no credit card required.

Yes. It runs in your browser, so Image Color Picker works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.

No. Image Color Picker works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.

Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Image Color Picker starts working the moment you give it your input.

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