Image & asset
One pixel,
read exactly
Point at a spot in a picture and read the colour of that pixel at the file’s own size — no downscale, no averaging. Your picture is decoded and read by your own browser and never leaves your device.
Drop an image here to pick a colour from it
PNG, JPG and WebP. Not SVG — this page reads pixels through your browser’s own decoder, and a vector has none until something draws it.
No screen picker in this browser
Sampling a colour from anywhere on your screen needs a browser feature this one does not have — it is a capability rather than a setting, so there is nothing to switch on. Everything else here still works: drop a picture and point at it, and the colour you get is read at the file’s own size.
The colour you picked
Drop a picture and click a pixel, or pick a colour from your screen.
Questions
How is this different from the palette tool?
The palette shrinks your image to 128 pixels square, groups colours that are near each other, and shows you the average of each group. That is the right way to answer “what is this picture made of”, and it means a swatch can be a colour that appears nowhere in your file. This reads one pixel at full size, so what you get is a colour the file actually contains.
Why can I not sample from my screen?
Because your browser does not have that feature. It is a browser capability rather than a setting, and only some have it — everything else on this page still works on a picture you drop, at the file’s own size. If the control is missing, that is why.
Is this the colour in my file, or the colour on my screen?
It is what your browser decoded, converted to sRGB. For most images those are the same thing. For a file carrying a wide-gamut profile, or on a wide-gamut display, the number here is a projection of the original rather than the original — which is worth knowing before you paste it into a brand document.
Does my picture get uploaded?
No. It is decoded and read by your own browser, and there is no server side to this page. The screen eyedropper, where your browser has one, hands this page a single colour you chose — not an image, and nothing is captured.
Why does it not tell me the colour’s name?
Because there is no list of colour names anybody agrees on, and inventing one would mean this page telling you your colour is “sage” on the authority of nothing. The hex, RGB and HSL values are the same colour written three ways, and all three are checkable.