SwatchForge

Getting colors out of a photo is the easy part. Turning them into something you can actually build with is where it falls apart. SwatchForge does the second part. Give it a photograph a product shot, a building, a texture, whatever your brand already looks like — and you get back a complete set of named colors. Backgrounds. Surfaces. Text at three weights. Two accents with soft and pressed variants. Borders. Success, warning and danger. Eighteen roles, each one knowing what it's for. Then it leaves as code. HOW IT WORKS Pick a photo from your library or take one. Crop to the part you want the colors from framing matters here, and a tight crop on the product gives you a very different palette than the whole room. Choose which roles your project actually uses, or leave them all on. Extract. Every palette holds onto its source photo. Come back next week, tap the photo, crop it differently…