Photo Color Extractor — Match Photos to Chinese Traditional Colors

Upload a photo, paste from clipboard, or pick a file. We extract dominant tones, assign palette roles, match them against 567 Chinese traditional colors with CIEDE2000 perceptual color difference, and generate CSS, Tailwind, and JSON exports — all client-side, never uploaded.

CHROMA CATHAY TOOL

Extract a photo palette, then translate it into cultural color language.

This is the first Chroma Cathay utility surface: a photo palette generator that keeps the practical HEX output, then adds Chinese Color Atlas matches, roles, and design-ready exports.

CHROMA CATHAY

Drop · Paste · Click

JPG · PNG · WebP · GIF · max 10MB · ⌘V to paste

01 · EXTRACT

Dominant photo tones

Median Cut finds the image's dominant color blocks without uploading the file.

02 · MATCH

Nearest atlas colors

CIEDE2000 compares each tone against the Chinese Color Atlas library.

03 · EXPORT

Design-ready output

Copy role-based CSS variables, Tailwind colors, or structured JSON.

1 · MEDIAN CUT—2 · sRGB → CIE Lab—3 · CIEDE2000 ΔE