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.
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.
- #macpaintpalette
- 2 colors
- 1,666 downloads
Extracted from a Mac OS 9.0.4 System file's clut (color lookup table) resource, ID 4, the default 16-color palette. The Mac's palette APIs use 16 bits per color channel, so I've truncated them to 8 bits per channel as a Mac would have for display with a direct-color device. Note that classic Macs predate sRGB, and use a different gamma (1.8) from modern Macs and other OSes (2.2), so remember to set up an appropriate color profile if you're trying to match what a real Mac would display.
- #mac16color
- 16 colors
- 482 downloads
Game assets from Glider 4 (Macintosh, 1991, by John Calhoun, now MIT-licensed): https://github.com/softdorothy/Glider4/blob/master/Glider_405/Color%20Art.bin
Tags: mac, macintosh, apple, quickdraw, hardware, computer
The default System palette stored in the ROM BIOS of various classic Macintosh computer systems.
- #macintosh
- 256 colors
- 1,391 downloads
Tags: macintosh, classic, system7, macos
The 32 color palette for old mac icons
- #macintoshicon
- 32 colors
- 123 downloads
Tags: mac, macos, macintosh, icon
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