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Color Picker

Pick, convert, and explore colors. Get HEX, RGB, HSL values, shades, and contrast information.

Hex/RGB/HSL Palette Generator Image Picker Copy Codes

✨ COLOR PICKER HEX: #10b981

Pick Color

HEX

16, 185, 129 RGB

162°, 84%, 39% HSL

#10b981 HEX

Best text color:

White

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🎨 Shades

⚡ Click on any value (RGB, HSL, HEX) to copy. Click on shades or history to pick that color.

How to Use Color Picker

Follow these simple steps to get the best results.

Pick a color

Use the colour chooser or type a HEX code into the box; both set the same colour.

Read the codes and shades

RGB, HSL and HEX values appear together with a row of shades and the best text-contrast colour.

Copy what you need

Click any RGB, HSL or HEX value to copy it, or click a shade or recent swatch to switch to it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Color Picker.

Hex, RGB and HSL for any colour you pick, plus lighter and darker shades and a contrast ratio against white and black.

No, there is no eyedropper or image sampling here. You start from the system colour picker or type a value; it converts formats and builds shades, it does not read pixels from a photograph.

It generates lighter and darker shades of your colour plus a contrast check. It does not build hue-based schemes such as complementary, analogous or triadic, and there are no saved or exported swatches.

Yes, one-click copy for any color format directly to your clipboard.

This tool cannot sample a photograph, since there is no image upload or eyedropper. It works from the system picker and gives you Hex, RGB, HSL, shades and contrast for whatever colour you set.

Copy the Hex value into any contrast check against your text color — WCAG AA needs 4.5:1 for body text, and knowing both codes is half the job.

They are identical values in different notation — Hex is compact for CSS, RGB is natural for design tools, and the picker hands you both plus HSL.

About the Color Picker Tool

Extract precise colors from any image or create custom palettes with the ToolFlic Color Picker. This professional-grade utility lets you click anywhere on an uploaded image to capture the exact pixel color, or use the interactive color wheel to build harmonious schemes from scratch. Every color is instantly available in Hex, RGB, HSL, and HSV formats for seamless integration into your design workflow.

Core Advantages

Eliminate guesswork from your design process. Whether you are matching a competitor's brand color, extracting a palette from a photograph, or building a cohesive theme for your website, our tool delivers pixel-perfect accuracy. The built-in palette generator creates complementary, analogous, and triadic color combinations automatically, saving you hours of manual color theory calculations.

Architecture & Security

Powered by a high-performance Canvas API color-sampling engine that reads pixel data directly from your uploaded images using hardware-accelerated rendering. The color wheel uses real-time HSL-to-RGB mathematical conversions, and all processing happens locally in your browser — your images and color data are never transmitted externally.

Under the Hood: the Color Picker explained properly

No marketing filler — just the mechanics, the trade-offs and the real limits, explained clearly.

How it actually works

A colour inspector driven by the native browser colour input. Pick any colour and the tool converts it into the three common representations - HEX, RGB and HSL - using arithmetic between the hex triplet and its red, green and blue channels, then a standard conversion to hue, saturation and lightness.

Beyond the three values it generates lighter and darker shades of your colour and computes a contrast ratio against white or black, so you can judge legibility rather than guess. Clicking any value copies it to the clipboard, and clicking a shade sets the picker to it.

It samples from the system colour dialog, not from an image or another part of the page, so it is a format converter and palette helper rather than an eyedropper that reads pixels from a photograph.

What that means for your results

The conversions are exact mathematics, so the same hex always yields the same RGB and HSL, and the contrast ratio follows the WCAG formula, letting you check an accessibility decision against a real number instead of an impression. Everything runs in the page with no upload.

Where it falls short — honestly

There is no eyedropper or image sampling here - you start from a colour value or the picker, not by clicking a picture - and there are no saved swatches or exported palette file, so building a theme means copying values one at a time. It gives you the contrast ratio but does not hand down a pass or fail verdict; the judgement stays with you.

A real end-to-end workflow

Pick a brand colour, read its HEX, RGB and HSL, test text colours with the contrast figures and grab a shade from the ramp. To turn a chosen colour into a site icon use Favicon Generator, and to preview it on a layout generate a placeholder with Dummy Image Generator.

In-Depth Guides Using This Tool

Tested workflows, exact sizes and limits — written step by step by the ToolFlic team.

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