When designing a website, slide deck or social card, you often need the exact color from a brand logo, product photo or reference image. Guessing a hex code by eye is unreliable, and pasting a screenshot into design software is tedious. With this tool you upload an image, click anywhere on it, and instantly get that pixel’s HEX, RGB and HSL values, ready to copy into CSS, Figma or Canva.
As you hover over the image, a round loupe magnifies the 9×9 pixels around the cursor and outlines the selected pixel in red. In photos, edges and gradients mean neighbouring pixels can differ a lot, so the loupe helps you avoid muddy colors caused by anti-aliasing or noise and land exactly on the shade you want. Every pick is added to the color history so you can compare colors and assemble a palette.
Once you have colors, the WCAG 2.1 contrast checker lets you set a foreground (text) and background color, calculates the contrast ratio and shows whether it passes. Normal text needs 4.5:1 for AA and 7:1 for AAA; large text (18pt and up, or 14pt bold) is relaxed to 3:1 and 4.5:1. Checking contrast when you derive button or heading colors from a brand color prevents problems for older readers, people with low vision and anyone reading in bright sunlight.
Keep in mind that the picked value is what is stored in the image file. Photos are affected by lighting, white balance and compression, so the same product can have different codes in different shots; for official brand colors, rely on the brand guidelines. The image is read with Canvas inside your browser and is never uploaded.