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.

Soft CGA
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Created by collyflower05

Soft CGA provides a softer, modified version of the CGA palette present on ZX Spectrum and IBM-PC.

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#softcga
16 colors
68 downloads

Tags: hardware, cga

Microsoft Windows

Use by early versions of windows for UI and icons.

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#microsoftwindows
16 colors
3,406 downloads

Icons from Windows 3.x
Example by Isa
Example by derision
Based on the old Bluescreened image, with some minor edits to include the palette a bit more efficiently. - by JamesTDG

Tags: hardware, computer, windows

Commodore 64

Commodore64 was an 8-bit home computer released in 1982.

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#c64
16 colors
4,990 downloads

Technotitlan by iLKke
Yus Bird by Ptoing

Tags: hardware, computer, commodore

Color Graphics Adapter

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

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#cga
16 colors
2,726 downloads

Screenshot of Paku Paku, a fan-made pac-man clone.

Tags: hardware, computer, cga, ega

LEGO brick 2016 palette

Submitted by Polyducks

All available LEGO brick colours from 2016. These are colours for opaque bricks only. The transparent bricks are the same as opaque only...transparent.

A palette taken from the 2016 interior memo from LEGO as listed here: https://brickset.com/colours . This is a direct 1:1 copy from the memo, including the metalic and glow-in-the-dark colours. These are listed last as #e4edce, #42433e, #c39738 and #878c8f

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#legobrick2016palette
43 colors
1,038 downloads

Palette usage example by Polyducks

Tags: lego, lego2016, hardware, physical

Mac Paint

Created by Polyducks

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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#macpaintpalette
2 colors
386 downloads

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