Color Palette Generator

😫 The Pain Point

You see a beautiful photo and want to use its color scheme for your presentation or website. You take a screenshot, open Photoshop, use the eyedropper tool to pick colors one by one…

🚀 Agentic Solution

Palette Extractor: Finds the 5 most dominant colors in an image and gives you their HEX codes immediately.

Key Features:

• K-Means Clustering: Uses an algorithm to group similar pixels and find the “average” colors.
• Export: Saves the palette as an image or a text file of codes.

⚔️ Phase 1: Commander (Quick Fix)

For getting colors from one image.

Prompt:

“Extract the top 5 dominant colors from design.jpg. Print their HEX codes to the terminal and create a small swatch image showing the palette.”

Result: HEX codes ready to copy-paste.

🏗️ Phase 2: Architect (Permanent Tool)

For Designers/Frontend Devs.

Engineering Prompt:

**Role:** Python Graphics Tool Dev
**Task:** Create a "Color Palette Extractor".
**Requirements:**
1.  **GUI:**
    *   Drag & Drop Image zone.
    *   Display: 5 color blocks results.
    *   Click on a color block to copy HEX code to clipboard.
2.  **Logic:**
    *   Use `colorthief` (or `sklearn.cluster.KMeans` for raw implementation).
    *   Get palette.
    *   Convert RGB to HEX.
3.  **Deliverables:** `palette_gen.py`, `run.bat` (Windows), `run.sh` (Mac).

🧠 Prompt Decoding

• Clipboard Integration: The detailed requirement “Click to copy HEX” turns a simple script into a powerful productivity tool. It saves the user the friction of selecting text and pressing Ctrl+C.

🛠️ Instructions

1. Copy Prompt -> Paste -> Run.
2. Drop image -> Click color to copy.