Pigment: Color from Masters

The fastest way to pull professional color palettes from museum-quality art. Browse the Art Institute of Chicago's complete collection, tap to extract a 5-color palette, tap any swatch to copy its hex code. No random palettes. No AI generation. Just proven color harmonies from masterpieces.

Designers spend too long hunting for palettes that don't look like every other project. Pigment solves that by going straight to the source — over 130,000 artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago, each one a ready-made color study refined by an actual artist. Monet, ancient Greek pottery, Edo prints, modernist paintings. Pull any of them into HEX, RGB, or HSL in seconds, with WCAG contrast ratings already attached. Or skip the museum entirely: snap a photo of anything — a sunset, a wall, your morning coffee — and pull a palette straight from the world around you.

Browse by color, not keywords.

Pick a hue family and browse every artwork that contains it. No search terms, no guessing. Just find the deep crimson or dusty sage you're imagining — or stumble onto something better.

Extract palettes in seconds.

Tap any artwork to pull its dominant colors — up to 9 per piece. HEX, RGB, and HSL values at a glance. Copy any value with a single tap. Runs entirely on-device once the image loads.

Built-in WCAG contrast ratings.

Every palette shows AA and AAA accessibility scores for each color pairing. Know instantly what works for body text, headlines, or UI — no external tools needed.

Your collection, offline.

Save artworks and palettes to your device. No account, no cloud sync, no subscription. Just your library, always available.

Export anywhere.

Share palettes as polished image cards for Instagram or Behance, or export raw color codes straight into Figma, Sketch, or code.

The experience:
Warm dark backgrounds, antique gold accents, serif typography. Feels like a private museum catalog. Works like a design tool.
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What's inside:
130,000+ artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago
Browse artworks by color family
On-device palette extraction — up to 9 colors per artwork
HEX, RGB and HSL values with one-tap copy
WCAG AA/AAA contrast ratings for every color pairing
Offline favorites — no account required
Export as image card or raw color codes

Recent changes:
- Delete photos from My Photos with a tap and confirm
- Exported palette cards now show the artwork's description
- Onboarding reflects the photo capture workflow
- Swatch count changes on photos now auto-refresh the palette