What color is this?

Pick a color from an image in three steps

1. Add the image. Drag it onto the page, paste it from your clipboard, or choose a file. On a phone, you can take a photo.
2. Click the color. A loupe magnifies the pixels under the pointer, so you land on the exact one you mean. Arrow keys nudge it a pixel at a time, and Enter picks.
3. Copy what you need. The name and every code have their own copy button.

Most color pickers for images ask you to upload the file. This image color picker reads it where it already is, in your browser, and nothing is stored. Close the tab and the image is gone.

Find the hex code of any color

Every pixel on a screen is three numbers: red, green and blue. A hex code writes them as six digits, two for each. #3B82F6 is red 59, green 130, blue 246. Pick a pixel and its hex code comes first in the answer, with RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK and OKLCH under it.

Already have a code in another format? Type it into the field instead. To see how the digits turn into numbers, step by step, use the HEX to RGB converter.

Name the color, not only the code

"What is this color?" usually asks two things: its exact code, and what to call it. Codes are exact. Names are how people talk about color, so we look up the nearest one in three lists:

• the 148 CSS color names;
• the 949 colors from the xkcd color survey;
• a community collection of over 30,000 names.

An exact match says so. A near one is marked ≈, with the list it came from and the next closest names beside it.

Matching a color from a photo

A photo records the light that reached the camera, and that's what this tool reads. The pixel's color is exact. The object's color is an estimate, because lighting, white balance and your screen all shift it. As a color identifier for paint, fabric or print, use the code as a starting point and check it against a physical swatch. For an even reading, pick a few pixels across the area instead of one.