You place the pickers; nothing is guessed for you
Many palette tools run an automatic “dominant colours” pass, which tends to return three shades of sky and miss the small red sign that made the photo interesting. This tool works the other way round. Five pickers start spread across the image, and you drag each one onto a colour you care about. Shuffle throws them to random spots when you want a quick starting point, and the plus and minus buttons change the count from 2 up to 10.
Each picker reads a small square of pixels and averages it, rather than taking one pixel. That keeps JPEG noise and grain from giving you a speckled value. The square grows with the image: on a 4000 × 3000 phone photo it is 17 × 17 pixels, on a 1200 × 800 image it is 5 × 5.
Getting clean colours from a logo
- Put pickers in the middle of solid areas. On a thin line or an edge, the averaged square mixes the shape with its background.
- Transparent areas read as black, and soft see-through edges come out darker than the real colour. If your logo is a PNG on a transparent background, aim well inside the shapes.
- If you have the logo as an SVG, the exact values are written in the file. Open it in a text editor and look for
fill=; that beats sampling every time. - With a picker focused, the arrow keys nudge it a little at a time, which helps on small details.
Formats you can copy
| Where | What you get |
|---|---|
| Hex, RGB, HSL tabs | Switches every value shown on the page, each with its own copy button |
| Export colors, HEX list | All colours as HEX codes separated by commas |
| Export colors, CSS variables | A :root block with --color-1 onwards |
The exports are always HEX, whichever tab is selected. If you need a whole list in another format, run the codes through the colour converter.
Your image stays on your device
The photo is opened by the browser and read from a hidden canvas on the page. It is not uploaded, so it is fine to use unreleased product shots or client artwork. Any format your browser can display works, which covers JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF everywhere. HEIC opens in Safari but not in most other browsers; convert it first with HEIC to JPG.
Guides and comparisons
Step-by-step with a worked café example: Color palette from a photo. How Mewix compares to Adobe Color, ColorFetcher, Swatchery and Atmos: Top 5 color palette from image tools.
Questions
I only need one exact colour from a screenshot.
The colour picker is better for that: it reads exactly the pixel you click, with no averaging.
Will uploading a new image reset my pickers?
No. The pickers keep their positions and read the new image at the same spots. Use Shuffle or drag them again to suit the new picture.
Can I build more colours around the ones I picked?
Paste one into the palette generator, lock it, and generate shades or matching hues around it.
