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Emoji Color Palette Extractor

Pick any emoji to instantly extract its dominant colors as a ready-to-use hex palette.

Selected: 🌈 Rainbow

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Select an emoji to extract colors

How to use the Color Palette Extractor

  1. 🎨

    Pick an emoji

    Search or scroll through the emoji grid. Colorful emojis like 🌈, 🦚, 🌺, and 🍕 give the richest palettes.

  2. 🎯

    View colors

    The tool renders the emoji at 256×256 pixels and samples thousands of pixels to find the most common color groups.

  3. 📋

    Copy hex codes

    Click the Copy button next to any swatch to copy its hex code to your clipboard, ready to paste into Figma, CSS, or any design tool.

  4. ⬇️

    Download

    Click Download Palette PNG to get a 480×80 swatch strip you can use as a reference in design projects.

Why extract colors from emoji?

Emoji are designed by world-class color teams at Apple, Google, and Microsoft with carefully chosen harmonious palettes. Extracting those colors gives you instant access to professionally curated combinations — perfect for branding, UI themes, illustration, or social media graphics. A 🌊 ocean emoji can inspire a cool blue brand palette. A 🌸 blossom gives you delicate pinks. A 🔥 fire yields fiery oranges and yellows.

The tool works entirely in your browser using the HTML Canvas API — your emoji never leaves your device. Colors are quantized into perceptual buckets and ranked by frequency, so you always get the most visually dominant shades rather than noise from anti-aliasing or gradients.

About Emoji Color Palette

Emoji Color Palette analyses any emoji and extracts the dominant colours from it, returning a palette of hex and RGB codes you can use directly in your design work. Whether you are building a branded UI, choosing a colour scheme inspired by a logo emoji, or simply curious what exact shades go into a specific character, this tool does the analysis instantly in your browser.

How to Use

  1. 1Search for or select the emoji you want to analyse.
  2. 2The tool renders the emoji and samples its pixel colours automatically.
  3. 3A palette of dominant colours is displayed, each with its hex code and RGB values.
  4. 4Click any colour swatch to copy the hex code to your clipboard.
  5. 5Use the copied colour values directly in CSS, design tools like Figma, or image editors.
  6. 6Try different emoji to compare palettes and find combinations that work together.

Tips & Tricks

  • ✓Skin-tone modifier emoji yield different palettes — try multiple skin tone variants if you need a specific flesh-tone reference.
  • ✓Food and nature emoji tend to have rich, earthy palettes; flag emoji produce crisp, saturated national colours perfect for themed designs.
  • ✓Use the extracted palette as a starting point in Figma or Adobe XD by pasting the hex values into your swatches panel.
  • ✓If you need an accessible contrast pair, pick the lightest and darkest colours from the extracted palette and check their contrast ratio.

Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate is the colour extraction?

The tool renders the emoji using the browser's emoji font and samples the resulting pixels. The accuracy depends on the emoji font, but dominant colours are reliably identified.

Can I get RGB as well as hex values?

Yes. Each colour in the palette is shown with both its hex code (#rrggbb format) and its RGB values (r, g, b integers).

Why do colours differ between operating systems?

Different platforms (Apple, Google, Windows) use their own emoji designs, which may use slightly different shades for the same emoji. The tool analyses whichever font your browser uses.