How to make a color palette from an image ordered by frequence

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@jeremydouglass

Can you describe what kind of content you are working with? Is it photographic, illustrative, CGI, some mix?

Doesn’t matter. It should work with any image (i.e. collection of pixels).

@jeremydouglass

Supposing your system encountered an image that was random color static (…) what would be a desirable outcome?

Essentially, like I mention in the top post, I could already get this to work by first applying color quantization to an image and then extracting the most common colours (by checking every pixel).

For that particular image, if I apply color reduction (quantization) with imagemagick to 6 colours, I get:

Which, as a palette, translates to #CAC4CB, #363B33, #739893, #A74646, #BB54B7, #44AB46

@jeremydouglass

Do you have particular palette sizes in mind (3, 5, 10, 20?)

It should be customisable.

@jeremydouglass

and would you want to bias towards more “noticeable” versions of a color, e.g. full saturation?

I’m not sure. Probably not.