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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. All palettes can be downloaded and imported into your pixelling software of choice (learn how). You can also try a our palette of the day or a random palette.
Created by mije nasa
with the help of http://gramaz.io/chromaticity/, i made the most regular palette ever. Just look at the DB analysis.
guy, sun, rain, apple and gem - by mije nasa
Tags: calculated, perceptual
Submitted by Halamix2
Palette used in Uzebox console, #daffff is used for transparency
Tags: hardware, console, calculated
A calculated palette using 2 bits for each RGB value. It was used by a few systems, including the Sega Master System, EGA, and a few others.
Tags: calculated, hardware
A calculated palette using 1 bit for each RGB value. It was used by a number of early computers.
Tags: calculated, hardware
Created by Yousurname
These are the most optimized 4 colors to represent grayscale graphics.
Tags: grayscale, monochrome, 4colors, 4, 2bit, gray, calculated, monoramp
Created by A.J. Otero
This is essentially the 9-bit RGB palette, but reduced from 512 to 256 colors by combining the least significant red and blue bits, resulting in a 3-bit green channel, 2-bit red and blue channels, and a 1-bit Magenta channel, so RGBM stands for red-green-blue-magenta. Unlike the similar Uzebox palette, this one provides pure grays. P.S., I entered all of the color numbers manually, which took a while, so I hope there aren't any errors!
Tags: calculated, linear
Submitted by Lecon Basin
A palette made by reducing all 8 colour palettes hosted on lospec
Tags: calculated, hybrid, leconbasin
Created by mije nasa
This palette is generated by maping 4 bits in this way: 1 bit for red, 2 bits for green, 1 bit for blue.
montains - by mije nasa
Tags: calculated
Created by A.J. Otero
So here I've tried to reduce the redundancy in the 3-bit RGB palette by making each of the color channels have approximately the same effect on a colors luminance, instead of having green being disproportionately bright and blue disproportionately dark.
Tags: calculated
Submitted by A.J. Otero
1 red bit, 2 green bits, 1 blue bit. Similar in concept to the Uzebox palette, which also uses bit combinations for the RGB color channels, in that case adding up to 8 bits in total, rather than 4.
Tags: calculated
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