Color Picker & Identifier

Find color inspiration around you and turn it into something you can use. Color Picker & Identifier helps you identify colors with your camera, sample photos, compare shades and build palettes for design, art and decorating.

More ways to use your photos
Make a shareable palette card or a mesh gradient from a photo. Match another photo’s colors and choose whether to keep the original lightness. Compare colors at two points, see how much space each color takes up, or study light and dark areas with a grid. Try text over the photo and check its contrast, preview different types of color vision, or make a printable paint-by-numbers page.

Pick and identify colors
Point your camera at a surface or open a photo to read its colors. View color names and codes including HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, Lab, LCh and OKLCH. Adjust the sampling area, use the magnifying loupe and hold a reading to inspect or save it.

Compare and explore
Compare two colors, see their color difference and check text contrast. Search saved colors and color lists by name or code. Explore tints, shades and color harmonies, or calibrate the camera for your lighting.

Create palettes and gradients
Build colors with the color wheel, explore harmonies and extract a photo’s main colors into a palette. Create linear, radial, sweep and mesh gradients, then use them in your design work.

Preview paint and photo effects
Try wall colors on a photo while retaining light and shadow with Paint a wall, currently in beta. Apply photo effects, replace selected colors and compare your edits with the original. Save a copy and reuse your effect recipes.

Explore color vision
Compare the original camera view with color-vision simulations. Highlight a color family or try color assist to make some hues easier to distinguish.

Save and share your ideas
Keep colors and palettes with notes, tags and folders. Share palette pictures and export supported swatch, PDF, code and data formats. Gradient exports include CSS, Compose, SwiftUI, Flutter, SVG, Android XML and JSON.

Built-in tours and lessons help you get started. All features are free, with no subscription.

Camera readings depend on your device, lighting and surface. Use consistent lighting and calibration when comparing physical colors.