Swatching is a project I created as both a designer and a developer, someone who works with color every day and understands how much time gets wasted searching for accurate values, building palettes, or analyzing colors from inspiration images. I wanted a tool that felt modern, precise, and genuinely useful, so I decided to build it myself and make it available to anyone who could benefit from it.
Swatching
/ˈswɒtʃ.ɪŋ/
verb
1. The act of testing, sampling, or evaluating colors through small patches or chips.
2. To compare color variations side-by-side to understand how they behave in different contexts or lighting.
Usage: “I spent the afternoon swatching different blues to find the right one.”
At the center of Swatching is the Color Extractor, a tool that lets you upload an image and instantly uncover the dominant colors within it. From there, you can refine your selections by dragging sampling nodes, view multiple color formats, and export palettes in ways that fit real workflows. My goal is to take something that can be tedious and make it feel fast, intuitive, and enjoyable.
A Work in Progress
Swatching is an active, ongoing project. I’m constantly improving the interface, refining accuracy, and adding new features as the platform evolves. If there’s a tool, enhancement, or workflow that would help you, I’d love to hear it. You can reach me anytime through the contact page.
What Swatching Offers
The platform currently includes:
- Image-based color extraction
- Draggable sampling nodes for precision picking
- HEX, RGB, CMYK, and Pantone conversions
- Palette export options
- Guides and resources on digital color and color theory
Everything is designed to be simple, accurate, and visually clean – built with both designers and developers in mind.
