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Color Thief

Library to extract color palettes from photos

Photo Management ★ 13.6k stars Easy setup MIT

Color Thief is an open-source JavaScript library that extracts the dominant color and a representative color palette from an image. It is self-hostable and used in photo galleries and apps to generate color-aware layouts.

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Key features

  • Dominant color extraction
  • Color palette generation
  • Browser and Node support
  • Tiny library

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simple and reliable
  • Widely used

Trade-offs

  • Library, not an app
  • Single-purpose

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