About
What is Color Archive?
Color Archive is a free, browser-based tool that automatically analyzes images and organizes them by their dominant color family. Upload any image and our color analysis engine extracts the most prominent colors, classifies them into one of ten color categories (red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink, brown, or grayscale), and displays your collection in a clean, moodboard-style layout.
Why we built it
As designers and creators ourselves, we found that organizing images by color was one of the most intuitive ways to browse visual collections — but most tools either required uploading to a server or didn't exist at all. We built Color Archive to solve this problem: a tool that works entirely in your browser, respects your privacy, and gets out of your way so you can focus on being creative.
Privacy first
Color Archive processes all images locally using the browser's Canvas API. Your images are never uploaded to any server — they never leave your computer. We don't collect, store, or share your images or any personal information. For more details, see our Privacy Policy.
How it works
When you upload an image, we compress it to a small width for performance, sample its pixels using the Canvas API, cluster similar colors together, filter out background tones (near-white, near-black, and transparent pixels), and classify the dominant color by its hue value. The entire process takes milliseconds and happens entirely in your browser.