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Reduce colors in pixel art
How it works
- Upload your image
- Choose the target color count (2–64)
- Download the color-reduced image and extracted palette
Features
- Perceptual color quantization (median-cut + k-means)
- Extracted palette displayed as copyable swatches
- Works with photos and pixel art alike
- No dithering: clean flat colors for pixel art
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FAQ
The color reducer maps each pixel to its nearest palette color without any dithering pattern. The result has flat, clean colors, ideal for pixel art.
Modified median-cut with k-means refinement, using perceptual color weighting. Similar to what libvips and pngquant use.
Yes, click any color swatch to copy its hex code to your clipboard.