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.
A basic 4-trit RGBI palette for a fictional ternary computer called the Trisys-27. The palette is designed to fit in 4 trits, with 1 trit each for red, green, blue, and intensity (the intensity value is just a modifier for the other 3 values). The formula to convert from ternary RGBI values to binary RGB values is: round((<rgb channel> * 3 + i) * 31.875). For example, the middle orange value has a ternary value of 2101, which means r = round(( 2 * 3 + 1 ) * 31.875 ) = 223, g = round(( 1 * 3 + 1 ) * 31.875) = 128, and b = round(( 0 * 3 + 1) * 31.875) = 32.
- #trisys27
- 81 colors
- 153 downloads
Palette used in Uzebox console, #daffff is used for transparency
- #uzebox
- 256 colors
- 4,048 downloads
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.
- #6bit
- 64 colors
- 5,445 downloads
Tags: calculated, hardware
These are the most optimized 4 colors to represent grayscale graphics.
- #optimizedgrayscale4
- 4 colors
- 3,094 downloads
Tags: grayscale, monochrome, 4colors, 4, 2bit, gray, calculated, monoramp
A calculated palette using 1 bit for each RGB value. It was used by a number of early computers.
- #3bit
- 8 colors
- 1,890 downloads
A Palette Used In The Idea By Arne, The Sega Cube, Found On Android Arts
- #segacube
- 256 colors
- 3,368 downloads
Tags: calculated, rgb, arne, sega, hardware
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!
- #8bitrgbm
- 256 colors
- 2,089 downloads
Tags: calculated, linear
I experimented with different calculations to make a palette that represents the original Game Boy's green-tinted screen well, while still definitely being calculated. (It looks more like the Pocket though) What I ended up with: Green component increases by 1/3 every color. Red and blue increase by 1/3 every color, starting from color 2.
- #calccurategameboy
- 4 colors
- 445 downloads
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.
- #4bitrgb
- 16 colors
- 1,343 downloads
Tags: calculated
A palette made by reducing all 8 colour palettes hosted on lospec
- #acronym8
- 8 colors
- 236 downloads
Tags: calculated, hybrid, leconbasin
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