Palette Analyser

Reorder the colours

Drag and drop the colours in the printout list to change the colour order of the palette.

Download the palette

Save the palette as a png to your device! You can then import this into Aseprite to use as a palette via a sprite, or just eyedropper the colours.

Analyse another pixel sprite

To check the colours of another pixel sprite, just click the monitor again and choose another file!

Why did you make this?

This tool was built so I could programmatically grab the palettes out of my own pixel art and display them alongside the piece in my gallery! I don't mind if people use my colour palettes for learning (you know, don't copy the actual artwork, but colours are whatever). However, be mindful of using other people's artwork to analyse and what their particular wishes might be.

Limitations & How it works

• Nothing chosen via the image input here is uploaded to the server! Choose a png or gif from your device and it'll be analysed directly in your browser via JavaScript, no fetching from anywhere, or sending it anywhere ^_^
• This tool only analyses the first frame of a gif image - it's loaded into canvas via JavaScript and then we go through the pixels in the image to grab the colours!
• Only gifs and pngs are allowed, because jpg is lossy, so your pixel art palette wouldn't be fully accurate. If you're really desperate to get something...that sorta looks like the colours in your jpg, you could try Color Thief, which has a Try it yourself section to analyse images.
• But I just want some palettes, don't you have any? I have some really old ones (that I really need to update), but if you're looking for a large number of varied colour palettes, try the Lospec Palette List - there's even a random one if you're struggling to decide!
• The irony that the Pixel Analyser 9001 is not pixel art has not been lost on me, maybe in a future iteration XP It was constructed out of basic shapes in Figma ^^