The Lospec Palette List is a database of palettes for pixel art.
We include both palettes that originate from old hardware that could only display a few colors, as well as palettes created by pixel artists specifically for making art.
1bit monitor glow - a bold, punchy 1-bit palette by Polyducks for making art with two colours. A mildly cyan black with a mildly green white - the contrast helps the colours ping.
- #1bitmonitorglow
- 2 colors
- 29,639 downloads
A cool off-white and a warm off-black to evoke the pages of a manga magazine.
- #paperback2
- 2 colors
- 6,752 downloads
Noire truth is a 1-bit palette that asks questions. Questions like why are you not using Noire truth yet. The white is stained with your afternoon coffee; the blue-black is the combination of your two favourite pen inks. You mixed them to save the time of choosing. you need to save all the time you can. After all, you want to retire soon, right?
- #1bitnoire
- 2 colors
- 2,196 downloads
A 1bit palette for old-looking games etched onto pixellated parchment
- #pixelinkpalette
- 2 colors
- 2,671 downloads
Sampled from a genuine Apple Macintosh CRT in 2021, it uses the light blue and faded black to carry 1bit art in the closest you can get to looking at an Apple Macintosh screen's colours without sitting in front of one. Take note that the colours are sampled from a daylight photograph of actual hardware then manually adjusted to best match the image, and is thus a representation of how the art displays as opposed to how it's recorded in software (which definitely would've been true black or white). Anyone has permission to use this palette for any purpose.
- #macpaintpalette
- 2 colors
- 1,666 downloads
My second try at 1-bit palettes. Unlike Nostalgi2 (another palette of mine) which was desaturated, this palette goes the opposite way, focusing on pastel colors by having a bright gray and saturated white. Now you can truly go for a soft look in your 1-bit art.
- #pastelito2
- 2 colors
- 1,542 downloads
The palette used in the game Return of the Obra Dinn when using the "IBM 8503" monitor setting.
- #obradinnibm8503
- 2 colors
- 1,701 downloads
A ship drifting along the horizon. - by
Casei Solus
This is the same image used as an example in Polyducks’s Mac Paint Palette. It’s a remix of the Mac Paint interface and Susan Kare's 1bit Geisha, which was shipped alongside Mac Paint and famously used to promote its potential as an art program.
Tags: game, obradinn, software, 1bit
A very simple 4 colour palette. I use the dark and bright colours for main 1-bit structures and the blue/teal and orange for accents
- #baldurneondarkness
- 4 colors
- 1,158 downloads
It is hard to make neutral palettes with color. Sometimes, there is just no color that fits the right vibe and you're better off with Black and White. After a lot of research and analysis, I figured dark green with a hint of blue to be the the second best option there. Grayscale Value Difference: 74 ; Cielab Brightness: 61
- #ysneutralgreen
- 2 colors
- 1,123 downloads
A warm 1bit color palette consisting of Black/blue and Yellow
- #bitbee1bit
- 2 colors
- 1,532 downloads
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