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Free Color Picker

Pick any colour with the spectrum, or eyedrop straight from an image or anywhere on screen. Get every format — HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK — check WCAG contrast, generate harmonies and export a palette. All in your browser.

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100% in your browser — images you pick from are never uploaded to do it.

Why use it

Every colour, every format.

Eyedrop anything

Sample a colour from an uploaded image — it even auto-extracts a palette — or pick from anywhere on your screen with the native eyedropper.

Every format

HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV and CMYK, each with one-click copy. Paste any value into a field and it converts to all the others instantly.

WCAG contrast

Check any colour against a background — AA/AAA pass or fail for normal and large text, so your ad and email copy stays legible.

Palettes & export

Build a palette, generate harmonies and shades, then copy CSS variables or JSON, or download a swatch PNG or Adobe .ase file.

How it works

Three steps, all in your browser.

Pick a colour

Use the spectrum picker, eyedrop from an uploaded image (and grab the auto-extracted palette), or pick from anywhere on your screen.

Convert & check

Read or copy it in HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV or CMYK, check WCAG contrast against a background, and explore harmonies, tints and shades.

Build & export

Collect colours into a palette, then copy them as CSS variables or JSON, or download a swatch PNG or an Adobe .ase swatch file.

Why ours

Made for ad & email work.

Pull brand colours from a logo

Drop in a client's logo or a reference shot and eyedrop the exact colours — or let it auto-extract the whole palette for you.

Keep copy legible

The WCAG contrast checker tells you instantly whether text passes AA or AAA on your chosen background — before it ships in a banner or EDM.

Private by design

Everything runs locally — images you eyedrop from are never uploaded to do it. Picking, converting, contrast and copying are free and unlimited.

At a glance

Color Picker vs Coolors and DevTools / OS picker

Coolors is the better palette community — millions of ready schemes and a following we’re not competing with. This is the working tool: eyedrop, convert, check contrast, ship. No ads on the free tier, and nothing you pick leaves the browser.

	Color Picker	Coolors palette community	DevTools / OS picker
Price	$1 per tool · Free to use · $35/mo unlocks all 40+ · free account: packaged exports, no daily limit	Free tier, Pro $4.99/mo · or $35.99/yr	Free with your browser/OS
No ads on the free tier	Yes · Nothing in the page loads an ad or a tracker.	No · “remove ads” is a Pro feature	Yes
HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV and CMYK, all copy‑ready	Yes · Five formats update together and each has its own copy button.	—	— · DevTools cycles HEX / RGB / HSL / HWB
Auto‑palette from an image, nothing uploaded	Yes · The image is decoded to a canvas in your tab and never sent anywhere.	— · extracts palettes; where the file is processed is unverified	No
Live harmonies + 9‑step tint & shade ramp	Yes · Complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and split‑comp, all clickable.	—	No
Lighten/darken the background till contrast passes	Yes · Nudge or swap foreground and background and watch AA/AAA flip live.	—	— · shows a ratio in the picker
Copy CSS/SCSS/JSON or save an Adobe .ase file	Yes · Copying code is unlimited and free; only the packaged file needs a free account (no daily limit).	— · code export exists; free‑tier limits unverified	No
Part of a 40+‑tool studio on one subscription	Yes · The same login opens every other tool in the shell.	No	No
Millions of community palettes to browse	No · We generate palettes from your colour or your image, not from a library.	Yes · their best feature	No

Compared July 2026 from Coolors’ own pricing page: Pro is $4.99/month or $35.99/year, and “remove ads” is listed as a Pro benefit — which is how we know the free tier carries them. Coolors is a genuinely excellent product with a huge palette library; it isn’t affiliated with DigiLakshya. Browser DevTools and the macOS/Windows colour pickers are free and already on your machine. A “—” means we couldn’t verify that capability from public material. Here everything is unlimited and free; packaged file exports need a free account, and nothing you pick is ever uploaded. None of them is affiliated with DigiLakshya.

More free browser tools

Cut out, convert and rename — all on-device.

Pair the colour picker with our other free, in-browser tools: Remove Background, Convert Image, Resize Image and Bulk Rename.

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FAQ

Quick answers.

Is my image uploaded to a server?

No. The Color Picker runs 100% in your browser — when you eyedrop colours out of an image, that image is never uploaded. It's safe for unreleased logos, mockups and confidential brand work.

What can I pick a colour from?

Three ways. Use the spectrum picker (a saturation/value square with hue and alpha sliders), eyedrop straight from an uploaded image (hover to sample, click to pick — and it auto-extracts a palette from the image), or pick from anywhere on your screen with the native eyedropper. Screen-picking needs a Chromium browser like Chrome or Edge; the button hides itself where it isn't supported.

Which colour formats does it give me?

HEX, RGB(A), HSL(A), HSV and CMYK — each with a one-click copy. Every field also accepts typed input, so you can paste a HEX, rgb() or hsl() value and it converts to all the others instantly.

Can it check colour contrast for accessibility?

Yes. The built-in WCAG contrast checker compares your colour against a background and shows the contrast ratio with AA/AAA pass or fail for both normal and large text — handy for making sure ad and email copy stays legible.

Can I save and export a palette?

Yes. Collect colours into a palette, then copy them as CSS variables or JSON for free, or download a swatch-sheet PNG or an Adobe .ase swatch file. You also get colour harmonies (complementary, analogous, triadic and more) and tints & shades for any colour.

Is it free?

Yes — free to use with no signup. Picking, converting, contrast-checking and copying values are always free and unlimited. Only the packaged file downloads (swatch PNG / .ase) need a free account — with no daily limit. Need a different edit? Try Remove Background or Convert Image.

Do these tools use credits or tokens?

Not for the tools themselves. Use and preview every tool with no account. A free account downloads any single result at full size, with no daily limit. PRO adds Download all, every banner size, more share links and saving to your account. A few things keep a small free allowance: QA checks (2 a day with no account, 5 with a free one) and hosted share links (5 a month, 1 a day, live 3 days, each updated up to 2 times). PRO is a flat $35/month ($280/year) for unlimited use of all 40+ tools: no credit packs, no top-ups, no per-use fees. The only pay-per-use extras are optional AI work, paid from the Digi Bot credit wallet with the price shown before you pay: Digi Bot jobs; ✨ Ask AI in the tools and AI drafts in Character Animation, charged for what the AI actually uses (at most 1 credit a request; a new account’s first draft is free); and the AI pictures, voices and video shots of the AI Film Maker (a free account’s free credits make one film; bought credits make as many as they pay for) and of Character Animation (PRO), priced per picture, per line and per second of video. Many comparable tools bill per credit (remove.bg, CloudConvert, AdCreative.ai) — here one flat subscription covers everything. See tools pricing.

Pick, convert and check — free.

Free to use with no signup, and nothing is ever uploaded to do it. Eyedrop a colour, get every format, check contrast and export a palette — picking, converting and copying are unlimited, and a free account downloads each file, with no daily limit.

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