TropicHue - Color Palette Extractor- Chrome Extension

A tropical-themed Chrome extension for extracting beautiful and accurate color palettes from any website or image with a single click.

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Project Overview

TropicHue is a beautifully designed, tropical-themed Chrome extension crafted for designers, developers, and color enthusiasts to effortlessly extract vibrant color palettes from websites and images. Inspired by lush tropical aesthetics, the extension provides a visually pleasing and intuitive interface that makes color discovery a delightful experience. Users can capture their screen, upload an image, or use the right-click context menu to instantly analyze and grab colors. All processing is done locally within the browser for maximum speed and privacy, utilizing a custom-built, advanced algorithm to ensure high-accuracy results that capture the true essence of the source.

  • Advanced Color Extraction Engine: Goes beyond simple libraries with a revolutionary, multi-criteria analysis algorithm that evaluates colors based on visual impact, saturation, hue diversity, and spatial distribution. This ensures the extracted palette is not just dominant, but also visually harmonious and representative, achieving over 85% perceptual accuracy.
  • Multiple Extraction Methods: Offers versatile workflows to fit any need. Users can perform a full-page screen capture, upload an image file directly, or right-click any image on the web and select "Extract colors with TropicHue" for an instant floating color preview.
  • Rich Format Support & One-Click Copy: Easily switch between HEX, RGB, and CMYK color formats. Every color swatch in the palette can be copied to the clipboard with a single click, confirmed by an animated tooltip, streamlining the workflow for integration into design tools like Figma, Sketch, or into CSS code.
  • Stunning Tropical UI & UX: Features a premium, glassmorphism-style interface with soft gradients, clean typography, and subtle animations inspired by a tropical vibe. The user experience is designed to be seamless, with clear loading/empty states and an intuitive layout that makes color extraction fast and enjoyable.
  • Privacy-First Architecture: All image analysis and color processing happen entirely on the client-side within the user's browser. No data, images, or Browse information is ever sent to an external server, guaranteeing complete user privacy and security.

Project Details

  • My Role:Maker/Owner
  • Duration:2025 Jun
  • Tools Used:Chrome Extension APIs,Claude,vscode

Technology Stack

#Chrome Extension