Palette from image
Drop in reference art, choose how many colours you want, and get a palette ordered dark to light, ready for Aseprite, GIMP or Lospec. It runs in your browser; your image never leaves it.
Choose an image to begin. It stays on your device.
How it works
- Choose an imageReference art, a screenshot or a sprite. Transparent pixels are ignored, so a sprite's background does not count.
- Pick the sizeFrom 2 to 64 colours. An image with that many colours or fewer keeps every one of them, unchanged.
- ExportDownload a GIMP .gpl, a plain .hex list, or a PNG strip with one pixel per colour.
Questions
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. The palette is extracted entirely in your browser, and nothing is sent to a server.
How are the colours chosen?
The same way SpriteDock derives a palette from reference art: colours are clustered in Oklab, a colour space that matches how far apart colours look, with large flat areas counted less so small accents survive. Each cluster is then snapped to a real colour from the image, so no colour is invented.
Why are the colours in this order?
They are sorted dark to light, so the palette reads as a ramp and index 0 is the darkest colour.
Which formats can I export?
GIMP .gpl (Aseprite opens it too), a .hex file with one colour per line (the Lospec format), and a PNG strip one pixel tall with one pixel per colour.
Can I use the palette in SpriteDock?
Yes. Import the .gpl or .hex as a palette in SpriteDock, and its painter will only paint with those colours.
Paint in the palette you just made.
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