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.

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  Palette usage example by Polyducks

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  Example by BitBits

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  Example by vera

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  Example by Qirlfriend

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  Using the palette in my RPG Maker game. - by Psyklon

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  Example submitted by Mycha' El7

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  Screenshots from Owl Adventure. - by Pablo Barría

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  Example by Loreq

Tags: 1bit, black, white, polyducks

A cool off-white and a warm off-black to evoke the pages of a manga magazine.

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  Example by Doph

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  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: 1bit

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?

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  Example by Cheeseismysoul

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  Example by CasualJoe

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  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.

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  Example submitted by CasualJoe

Tags: 1bit, ink, newspaper, vague, noire

A 1bit palette for old-looking games etched onto pixellated parchment

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  Example by Mig Moog

Tags: 1bit, two, polyducks, ink, pixel, simple, black, white

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.

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  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. - by Polyducks

Tags: 1bit, applemac, macintosh, applemac, blue, simple, lowspecification, hardware

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.

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  Some examples. - by Anubi

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  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: artist, anubiarts, pastelito2, pastel, 1bit, monochrome

The palette used in the game Return of the Obra Dinn when using the "IBM 8503" monitor setting.

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  A ship drifting along the horizon. - by Casei Solus

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  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

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  Example by 𝓑𝓪𝓵𝓭𝓾𝓻

Tags: simple, cyberpunk, neon, space, 1bit, low, highcontrast

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

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  Cutout of Yelta's (my) The Bombstand, with the Neutral Green palette applied. - by Yelta

Tags: 1bit, neutral, green, horror

A warm 1bit color palette consisting of Black/blue and Yellow

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  Example by Poltergasm

Tags: 1bit, 2colors