3-Bit RGB - Perceptually Linear Palette
The 3-Bit RGB palette, but with the colours adjusted to be perceptually linear at a gamma of 2.4 (A gamma of 2.2 works better with the lights on, and a gamma of 2.4 with the lights off... like night mode). This lends it a shiny, chrome-like effect similar to art you'd see on the Atari ST/Amiga, makes the colours less fluorescent, allows for good dark/background/low-contrast details (that's always been a pain on EGA games, as you can see), and makes for better colour ramping/gradient usage - especially in modern "limited truecolour" art instead of art that uses attribute blocks/tiles, ASCII, or sprites. If you like this and want to see more hardware palettes converted to look like this, write me a comment.5
4
Number of colors: 8
Downloads: 39
#000000
#000063
#850000
#b500b5
#00a300
#00c7c7
#e0e000
#ffffff
Downloads
How to import palettesMore Palettes
Back to the Palette List Random PaletteExamples
This palette has no examples yet.
Comments (2)
Could you make a version where the red, green, and blue components add an equal amount to the perceptual brightness, so that the colors red, green and blue each have "1/3" brightness/luminance, and cyan, magenta and yellow have "2/3"?
Great idea. I will submit that soon.
