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Hextractor earns its spot in the aescripts library as a focused color utility: instead of picking hex values by hand, you paste them or lift them from layers and images. It sits at popularity rank 651 among the site's scripts.
Hextractor is a color-extraction script for After Effects, built by YB Motion and hosted on aescripts. It pulls colors from text and layers and turns them into palettes, guides and swatches.
You can paste a full brand guide or a client email that contains hex codes and grab every color at once, or build a palette from selected layers or even images. Saved palettes can be switched between quickly, which helps when you're juggling several clients or projects, and they can be shared with your team. Recent updates have extended guide layers to include near-white and near-black tones that were previously filtered out and stabilised color mosaic generation.
The current release is version 1.2.4, last updated on December 2, 2025. Hextractor is listed as compatible with After Effects 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and CC 2019, covering a wide span of installs. A demo video is available on YouTube.
Hextractor is best for after Effects artists who need to pull brand colors from text, layers or images into reusable palettes and move between color schemes across multiple clients or projects.
Hextractor is completely free to download and use.
Hextractor runs across a broad range of After Effects releases, listed as compatible with After Effects 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and CC 2019. That range covers most recent installs, so you can extract palettes on current projects and older ones alike. The catalog reflects version 1.2.4, last updated on December 2, 2025. If you run a version outside this list, check the developer's page on aescripts for the latest compatibility details before installing.
Hextractor can read hex codes straight from pasted text. Paste a full brand guide or a client email that contains hex values, and the tool grabs all the colors at once instead of picking them one by one. Alongside that, it builds palettes from selected layers or images, so you can gather colors from several sources. Extracted colors can also feed guide layers and color mosaics. A demo video is available on YouTube if you want to see it before installing.
Hextractor is listed as free in this catalog, so there's no purchase required to add it to your After Effects toolset. Licensing terms can change, though, so check the developer's page on aescripts for current download and license details before you rely on it. The tool sits at popularity rank 651 on aescripts, placing it among the many color and workflow scripts hosted there. Being free makes it straightforward to try alongside your existing palette workflow.
Hextractor builds a color palette from selected layers or even from images, not just from typed hex codes. That means you can pull a scheme out of artwork or existing comp layers and save it for reuse. Saved palettes can be shared with your team, and you can switch between color schemes quickly when moving between clients or projects. Extracted colors can also populate guide layers and color mosaics within your project.
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