the best design token extractors in 2026

Point almost any of these tools at a public page and you get the same raw material back: colors, fonts, sizes, spacing. So the interesting question is never "which one reads a page," because they all do. The question is what each one hands you at the end, and who that hand-off is for. Most of the category gives a person a panel to read or a file to download. One gives an AI agent a brief to build from. That distinction is the whole map, and this roundup stays fair to every tool on it, including the ones we are not.

the three shapes of output

A "design token extractor" produces one of three things, and mixing them up is how people pick the wrong tool:

1. A panel to read. You hover, click, or open a URL and look at the values on screen. Great for a person doing the next step by hand.
2. An export file. A JSON, CSS, or Tailwind dump of the tokens, sometimes DTCG-spec compliant, that you drop into a project.
3. A build brief. Tokens plus page structure plus a written prompt an AI coding agent can act on without you retyping anything.

Almost every tool below is shape one or two. A panel is not worse than a brief. It is just for a different reader.

the roundup

Peek

Peek is a browser extension that extracts colors, typography, and assets (logos, images, icons, even Lottie files) from any website. It exports palettes as CSS, SCSS, Tailwind, SVG, JSON, or plain text, and it runs its analysis locally in the browser so nothing is sent to a server. If your next move is "grab this palette and these fonts and get on with a Figma file or a stylesheet," Peek is fast and pleasant at exactly that. It is a shape-one and shape-two tool, and it is good at both.

Best for: a designer collecting inspiration, palettes, and assets by hand.

Snable

Snable is a Chrome extension in the same family: real-time color and font analysis, a read on visual hierarchy, a clean report, and a companion Figma plugin to push what you find into a file. It sits at a healthy 4.6 stars on the store and earns it for its actual job. We wrote a whole comparison of uiscanner and Snable if you want the long version, but the short one is that Snable is built for a person looking at a design.

Best for: brand checks, inspiration, and Figma hand-off.

MiroMiro

MiroMiro is the most ambitious of the extensions. It inspects a page, then exports real HTML, Tailwind, and assets as paste-ready code. You hover any element to copy its CSS, download images and SVGs, and pull tokens out as a Tailwind config or CSS variables. It is genuinely faster than digging through the DOM by hand, and for a developer who wants a section's markup right now, that is a real workflow upgrade. Its thesis is explicitly anti "screenshot to code," and it leans hard on copying the real DOM. That is a strength and also the line where it stops: MiroMiro copies, where a build brief describes and rebuilds in your own stack.

Best for: a developer who wants the literal HTML and Tailwind of one section, fast.

CSS Stats

CSS Stats is the classic crawler. Feed it a URL, a stylesheet, or raw CSS, and it parses the whole thing into counts: rules, unique colors, font families and sizes, a specificity graph, spacing values, and where the bloat lives. It is less a token extractor and more a CSS audit tool, and that is its real value. When you are refactoring a large codebase or hunting inconsistency in your own system, the histograms are the point. One honest limit: it works on public CSS, so it cannot audit authenticated pages.

Best for: auditing and refactoring your own CSS, spotting inconsistency and bloat.

Project Wallace

Project Wallace is the modern, more design-token-shaped cousin of CSS Stats. Its Design Tokens analyzer takes a URL or raw CSS and returns a DTCG-spec-compliant token set: colors, font sizes, gradients, and more, grouped and deduped. The underlying css-design-tokens library is open source, so you can run the same extraction in your own pipeline. If you want a clean, standards-compliant token file out of a stylesheet, this is one of the best free ways to get it.

Best for: a spec-compliant token export straight from CSS.

Design Token Extractor (the Chrome one)

The extension literally named Design Token Extractor lets you click any element, see its computed styles in a sidebar, edit typography live, and export the result as JSON, CSS, TypeScript, or Tailwind. It is element-scoped rather than whole-page, which makes it precise when you know exactly which component you care about and tedious when you want the whole system.

Best for: pulling tokens off one specific element with surgical control.

Browser devtools

Do not skip the tool you already have. Chrome or Firefox devtools show you every computed style, the real box model, and the actual rendered value of anything on the page, for free, with nothing installed. The catch is well known: it is a manual, one-value-at-a-time inspector, and you can lose your selection on reload. Everything above is, in some sense, a nicer devtools. We went deeper on this in uiscanner vs browser devtools, but if your task is small and one-off, devtools is often the honest right answer.

Best for: a quick, free, one-off look at real computed styles.

uiscanner

Here is where the shape changes. uiscanner is the shape-three tool: you paste any public URL and it returns a full teardown, which is tokens (colors, fonts, type scale, radii, spacing, shadows, motion), a section-by-section structure of how the page is assembled, and a build prompt tailored for Claude and other coding agents. It reads the rendered page (vision) plus the DOM, so it catches what a pure CSS scraper misses: the real primary button rather than the first one in the source, whether a hero is centered or split, and which imagery is decorative, with prompts to recreate that imagery as originals instead of copying it.

The reason it exists as its own thing is the agent surface. It runs as a web app, an MCP server, and a CLI, so your coding agent can scan a page and receive the whole teardown as structured data in one call. One line wires it into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex:

claude mcp add uiscanner -- npx -y uiscanner-mcp@latest

Or run it once from the CLI without any setup:

npx -y uiscanner-mcp@latest scan stripe.com --target landing

There are five MCP tools: ui_teardown scans a page to a target archetype, ui_probe is a cheap preflight that spends no scan, get_teardown re-fetches a finished one, retarget_teardown re-tailors the prompt to another archetype without re-scanning, and whoami reports your plan. It is stdio-only, so it plugs into a local agent rather than a hosted URL. Like the reputable tools above, it is transformative by design: it describes and tokenizes a page and never copies or re-hosts the original asset bytes.

Best for: handing an AI agent a real design system to build against instead of generic defaults.

the comparison

how to actually choose

Match the tool to your next action, not to a feature list.

• If your next step is a human one (eyeball a palette, sanity-check a brand, drop colors into Figma), reach for Peek or Snable.
• If you need a clean token file from a stylesheet, Project Wallace gives you a spec-compliant export; CSS Stats is the better call when the real job is auditing your own CSS for bloat.
• If you want one section's literal code, MiroMiro is the fastest path.
• If your next step is an AI one (a coding agent rebuilds the design language and you do not want the same generic UI every model ships), that is what uiscanner is built for. The teardown goes straight into the agent, no retyping.

None of this is a knock on the rest of the list. A panel is the right output when a person is the reader, and a token file is the right output when you are dropping values into your own project. uiscanner is simply the option built for when the thing writing the code is not you. To see the output first, browse example teardowns, including full breakdowns of the Stripe and Linear design systems. The free plan includes 5 scans per rolling 30 days, and paid plans (Indie at 100, Studio at 400) share one quota across the web app, MCP, and CLI.