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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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
1,691 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

Tags: 1bit, applemac, macintosh, applemac, blue, simple, lowspecification, hardware

Macintosh default 16-color

Submitted by Vyr Cossont

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.

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#mac16color
16 colors
501 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