Design Snap
A ColorZilla alternative for whole-site palettes
ColorZilla is a great eyedropper. When you need more than one color — the whole palette of a site, ranked by how much it is used, with the fonts, radii and CSS variables that go with it — Design Snap is the free Chrome extension built for that job, with exports to Tailwind, shadcn/ui, CSS and Figma.
Rated 5.0/5 on the Chrome Web Store · read the reviews · Free plan · No account · 100% local analysis
How to get a site's full palette instead of one color
Picking colors one by one with an eyedropper works for a single value. For a palette, Design Snap reads every computed color on the page and ranks them in one pass.
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Install
Add Design Snap to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Free plan, no account.
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Extract
Open the website and press Extract. The Colors tab shows every color with its hex, ranked by real usage.
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Export
Copy a single hex, or export the palette as Tailwind config, CSS variables, JSON or Figma tokens.
Design Snap vs ColorZilla
Written by the developer of Design Snap — so here is the bias, stated upfront. Capabilities reflect both tools at the time of writing (October 2026); where ColorZilla is the better tool, the table says so.
| Capability | Design Snap | ColorZilla |
|---|---|---|
| Pick the color of any pixel (eyedropper) | No — reads CSS, not pixels | Yes — its core feature |
| Colors from images, canvas and video | No | Yes — pixel-based |
| CSS gradient generator | No | Yes |
| Whole-page palette ranked by real usage | Yes — by frequency in computed styles | Partial — page color analyzer, not ranked by usage |
| Exact CSS values, no antialiasing drift | Yes — computed styles | Pixel samples can drift on gradients and antialiased edges |
| Typography, radii, shadows | Yes | No |
Every :root CSS variable |
Yes | No |
| Export to Tailwind, CSS, JSON, Figma | Yes — free | No |
| shadcn/ui, Tailwind v4, Style Dictionary | Yes — PRO | No |
| WCAG contrast audit of the page | Yes — score free, full report PRO | No |
| Price | Free · PRO €4.99 once | Free |
When ColorZilla is still the right tool
If you need the color of a specific pixel — inside a photo, a canvas, a video frame or an antialiased icon — use ColorZilla. Its eyedropper samples what is on screen, which Design Snap deliberately doesn't do. Its gradient generator is also a handy standalone tool.
When you need Design Snap
An eyedropper answers “what color is this?”. Most of the time, the real question is “what is this site's palette?”. Answering it with an eyedropper means dozens of clicks, a notes file, and no idea which colors matter. Design Snap reads every color in the page's computed CSS, counts how often each is used, and puts the brand's primary, background and text colors on top.
Because it reads CSS rather than pixels, values are exact: no off-by-one hex from antialiasing, no blended color from a gradient edge. And the palette comes with the rest of the system — typography, radii, shadows, CSS variables — ready to paste as a tailwind.config.js, a shadcn/ui theme or Figma tokens.
Use both
They don't conflict. Many designers keep ColorZilla for pixel picking and use Design Snap when they want a site's whole design system in code.
From one hex to a whole palette
Design Snap replaces the click-and-note-down routine with one extraction and a ranked palette.
- Every color on the page, ranked by real usage
- Exact hex values from computed CSS
- Fonts, radii, shadows and CSS variables included
- One-click export to Tailwind, CSS, JSON or Figma
- 100% local — no account, no tracking
ColorZilla alternative — FAQ
It depends on the job. For picking single pixel colors, ColorZilla itself is hard to beat. For extracting a website's entire palette ranked by usage — with fonts, radii and CSS variables, and an export to Tailwind or Figma — Design Snap is a free Chrome alternative built for that.
No. Design Snap reads colors from the page's computed CSS instead of sampling pixels, which makes values exact but means it can't pick colors inside images, canvas or video. Keep an eyedropper for those.
Yes. Press Extract and the Colors tab lists every color on the page with its hex value, ordered by how often it is used.
Yes, Design Snap has a free plan with palette extraction and Tailwind, CSS, JSON and Figma exports. PRO is a single €4.99 payment for advanced exports and the full contrast report.