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.

Star Pop

Created by Dr_Succubus

A vibrant palette inspired by city pop and Mega Man on DOS.

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#starpop
4 colors
774 downloads

Example by Dr_Succubus

Tags: gameboy, citypop, pink, dos

AAP-DGA16

Created by Adigun A. Polack

Greatly inspired by the CGA/EGA era in the DOS gaming days fresh outta both the entire 1980s and early 1990s, this very newest palette by me takes all 16 of the main base colors of the original CGA/EGA and quite dials back the overly blatant high contrast to just the right balance — as well as vastly improving the hue shifting of them — making them all rather more sleeker, more modernized, and much, much better overall while being A LOT easier on the eyes also, quite importantly. This promises to be such a wonderfully handsome new replacement in bringing back those amazing glory days of DOS gaming and ANSI graphics both in such splendid style indeed!!

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#dga16
16 colors
811 downloads

This is just one example of my AAP-DGA16 palette in action, taking you indeed back to the glory days of CGA/EGA DOS gaming greatness while making all the colors a whole lot easier (and much more fun!!) to see, too! - by Adigun A. Polack

Tags: artist, adigunpolack, dga16, cga, ega, msdos, dos, dosgaming, dosgame, 16, 16colors

Quake

Created by Rhoq

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#quakepal
244 colors
3,736 downloads

Tags: quake, dos, videogame, fps

Hocus Pocus

Submitted by P-Tux7

The 256-color palette from the shareware DOS platformer Hocus Pocus.

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#hocuspocus
256 colors
2,193 downloads

Tags: game, dos

CGA Pastel 640x200 Mode

Created by merlinhacker yt

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#cgapastel640x200mode
2 colors
173 downloads

doGA Pastel 640x200 Mode - by merlinhacker yt
Pixel art made with the CGA Pastel palette by merlinhacker yt - by O0o

Tags: cgapastel, cga, vga, dos, ibmpc

Game-Maker

Submitted by P-Tux7

The 256-color VGA default palette from Recreational Software Designs' DOS game-creation software Game-Maker. Some colours are referenced more than once by the original palette indices, resulting in a total of less than 256 colors onscreen unless the user manually edits the palette in their Game-Maker game, though it can indeed easily be done in the program itself.

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