Tools / Palette from Image
Color Palette from Image.
Drop in a photo and get its dominant colors as a copy-ready palette. Everything runs in your browser — your image is never uploaded — so it's fast and private.
Studio
Taking an extracted palette off the screen
Colours pulled from a photograph are screen colours. Reproducing them anywhere physical needs a reference.
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...onto paper
Start here if the palette gets printed. Screen colour and ink colour are not the same colour, and this is the deck that translates between them.
Pantone
Color Bridge Guide — coated
Listed on Amazon as Pantone Color Bridge Guide Coated | Pantone to CMYK, RGB & HTML Color Matching Fan Deck for Graphic Design, Branding & Print | GG6103B
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...onto a screen you can trust
Start here if it stays digital. An uncalibrated monitor is the single most common reason a palette that looked right on your desk looks wrong everywhere else.
Calibrite
Display Plus HL colorimeter kit
Listed on Amazon as Calibrite Video Photo Kit with Display Plus HL Colorimeter and ColorChecker Passport Video 2, 10,000 Nit Monitor Calibration, Camera Color Matching
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...by hand
Start here if you are mixing it. Wada's plates were flat printed colour; gansai pans are the closest everyday medium to them.
Kuretake
Gansai Tambi 36
Listed on Amazon as Kuretake GANSAI TAMBI Watercolor Paint Set 36 Colors
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How the extraction works
In your browser, privately
The image is drawn to a hidden <canvas>, downscaled,
and its pixels are quantized into color buckets. The most populous,
visually distinct buckets become your palette. No server, no upload —
the file never leaves the page.
Using the result
Click any swatch to copy its hex. The colors come out sorted by how much of the image they cover, so the first few are your anchors. For a curated, history-backed alternative, browse the 378 Wada combinations.