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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.
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CGA was a graphics card released in 1981 for the IBM PC. The standard mode uses one of two 4-color palettes (each with a low-intensity and high-intensity mode), but a hack allows use of all 16. #cga
Screenshot of Paku Paku, a fan-made pac-man clone.
Made with Aseprite - by Clockmaster77
Preview of the upcoming CGA platformer game Cannonman. - by Primož Vovk
Created by trzyglow
A 16 color softened pastel palette based on the EGA cards of the 1980s. (Colors not arranged using the hardware's arrangement)
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
Created by The Dice Doctor
Imagine, if you will, that the EGA color palette had 64 vivid colors. This is my version of you would get. Retro and vibrant.
Created by Anakin_Guy
GUNSGAX20 was inspired by palettes taken from ms dos games like Duke Nukem 2 and Dangerous Dave In: The Haunted Mansion
Created by holospud
A 13-color indexed palette intended for retro-inspired pixel art and constrained color workflows. Suitable for game assets and limited palette environments. Converts automatically (in GIMP) to standard Commodore 64, EGA, PCjr (Tandy1000), Pico-8, CGA composite, and many more palettes. Perfect for pixel artists and game asset artists who want versatility that will work almost anywhere. Create graphics once, convert to almost any retro platform, and you're done!
Source: https://opengameart.org/content/nesmup
Source: https://opengameart.org/content/gum-bot-sprites
Source: https://opengameart.org/content/omega-team
Source: https://opengameart.org/content/cavernes
Tags: cga, ega, nes, pico8, snes, gbc, dos, turbogfx, multi, multiplatform, 13, retro, everywhere
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