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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.
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Created by grymmjack
All 16 original EGA ANSI art colors and 16 more in-between. I averaged these to find 8 darker and 8 lighter colors to complement the originals.
Created by Rhoq
Submitted by P-Tux7
The 256-color palette from the shareware DOS platformer Hocus Pocus.
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!!
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
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.
Created by Cubby Crazes
This is my take on the CGA/EGA colors (Though mainly inspired by the primitive 4 color palettes that everyone knows)
Submitted by Lecon Basin
This is the palette from the dos game Shadow President by DC true
Used in some Electric Crayon coloring book games.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: World Tour screenshots
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