Image Average Color Extractor
100% PrivateColor & Design ToolsRead an image and report its average and dominant colors with ready-to-copy values.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
- 1Select or drop an image file.
- 2Read the average color in the first panel.
- 3Browse the dominant colors and their pixel shares below.
- 4Copy any HEX value you want to reuse.
A completely solid #336699 image returns an average of exactly #336699 and a dominant palette with a single entry, #336699 at 100% of pixels. Real photos spread across several groups, and their average usually sits between the dominant colors rather than matching any of them.
- The image is downscaled to a longest side of 200px before sampling, so shares are statistics of that sample, not a full-resolution census.
- Transparent pixels (under 50% opacity) are ignored, so a logo on transparency is judged by its visible strokes.
- Dominant colors come from grouping similar colors into buckets and averaging each bucket; this is a histogram palette, not k-means clustering.
Averaging mixes opposites: a black and white photo averages to gray. When that happens, use the dominant palette, which reports the colors that are actually present.
About this tool
The Image Average Color Extractor reads an image on your device and reports two different things, labeled honestly: the average color (the mean of all sampled pixels) and a dominant palette (the largest groups of similar colors, with their share of pixels). Use the average for a representative background tint, and the dominant palette when you want the colors a viewer actually notices.
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