# color-palette-extractor

Pulls dominant colors out of an image, screenshot or website and turns them into a palette with contrast checks. Handy when you need a theme built from a logo or someone else's mockup.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 609 installs · ★ 382
- Author: OneWave-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/color-palette-extractor

## What it does

The skill takes an image file (PNG, JPG, SVG), a website URL, a screenshot, a design mockup, or an existing color code. From an image it reads pixel data, groups similar shades and sorts them by how much space they take up. From a website it fetches the CSS and picks out brand, accent, text and background colors. Clustering runs through K-means and returns 5-10 dominant colors; near-white and near-black get dropped unless they cover a meaningful area.

Those colors become the primary palette: the most dominant one, two or three supporting colors, one or two accents, a background and a text color. An extended palette adds tints, shades and a 50-950 numeric scale. Harmony analysis covers complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic and monochromatic schemes.

Accessibility is part of the run, not an afterthought. Every text/background pairing gets a WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio plus a simulation for protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, and failing pairs come back with a suggested alternative. Output goes to HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind, CSS variables, SCSS, JSON and iOS/Android snippets — the templates live in `references/export-formats.md`, the report structure in `references/output-template.md`. Colors scraped from a site only cover what the CSS actually exposes, so shades baked into images won't show up.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill color-palette-extractor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/color-palette-extractor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill color-palette-extractor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill color-palette-extractor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install OneWave-AI/claude-skills color-palette-extractor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill color-palette-extractor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills --path color-palette-extractor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill color-palette-extractor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/color-palette-extractor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull a palette from a screenshot of someone else's UI
- build a theme around a client's logo
- check whether text passes WCAG 2.1 contrast
- generate a Tailwind config from a set of colors
- build a 50-950 shade scale from one hex code

## Example prompts
- Extract the color palette from this screenshot and list the dominant colors
- Generate a color scheme from this image and check text contrast
- Create a Tailwind config from these colors

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: color-palette-extractor
description: Extract color palettes from images, websites, or designs. Identifies dominant colors, generates complementary schemes, and exports in multiple formats (HEX, RGB, HSL, Tailwind, CSS variables). Use when users need color schemes from images, brand colors, or design system palettes.
---

# Color Palette Extractor

Extract and generate accessible color palettes from images, websites, and designs.

## Contents

- `references/output-template.md` — full report structure for presenting a palette
- `references/export-formats.md` — CSS, Tailwind, SCSS, JSON, iOS, Android snippets
- `references/color-theory.md` — harmony schemes, accessibility, extraction best practices

## Workflow

1. Identify the source: image file (PNG, JPG, SVG), website URL, screenshot, design mockup, or an existing color code to build from.

2. Extract colors.
   - From an image: analyze pixel data, identify dominant colors, group similar shades, calculate frequency, and sort by prominence.
   - From a website: fetch and parse the CSS, extract color values, and identify brand, accent, text, and background colors.
   - Cluster with K-means; extract 5-10 dominant colors. Ignore near-white and near-black unless significant.

3. Build the primary palette (5-10 colors): most dominant color, 2-3 supporting colors, 1-2 accents, a background, and a text color. Generate an extended palette with tints, shades, tones, and 50-950 numeric scales. See `references/color-theory.md`.

4. Run color harmony analysis to produce complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, and monochromatic schemes. See `references/color-theory.md`.

5. Check accessibility: compute WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios for each text/background pairing and test against protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia. Recommend accessible alternatives where a pairing fails. See `references/color-theory.md`.

6. Format the report following `references/output-template.md`, and export to the requested formats using `references/export-formats.md`.

## Output Requirements
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