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.

MiniMax-32
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Created by Juho

This is a small color palette, but the selection of colors makes it useful for many different types of pixel art that are bright and have saturated colors. It is made for smaller platformer games. My main inspirations were from the Pico-8 palette and the one that Celeste uses.

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#mm32
32 colors
355 downloads

Example by Juho

Tags: bright, saturated, pico8, game, platformer, cute, small, simple, nintendo, indie, grass, colors, happy, fun

CC-29
Featured

Created by Alpha6

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1070

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#cc29
29 colors
33,271 downloads

Palette usage example by Alpha6
Example by revvy

Tags: cottoncandy, cc29, simple, retro, color

Pixel Ink

Created by Polyducks

A 1bit palette for old-looking games etched onto pixellated parchment

131

130

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#pixelinkpalette
2 colors
1,579 downloads

Example by Mig Moog

Tags: 1bit, two, polyducks, ink, pixel, simple, black, white

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
523 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

RADIOACTIVE13

Created by Miguel Lucero

This palette is a simple 13 color palette. All the colors are more desaturated and work well together. It's my favorite palette I've made! I'm going to use it for a game!

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#rad13
13 colors
980 downloads

The two most left images are sprites and tiles for my game mockup. The last image is simply a checken and an egg.
This gives a better view of my game mockup with the colors.

Tags: rad13, 13, subdued, radioactive, desaturated, simple, space, gameboy

Soft Boiled

Created by まるき

It’s 4:37 a.m. You’ve just woke up and the sun hasn’t even made an intention of rising. Going back to bed is impossible. You feel your stomach complaining, announcing a dooming morning starvation, but the drowsiness is such you can barely move. You look for the easiest thing to cook. You make soft-boiled eggs. Jokes apart, this 3 color palette is meant to be simple and fulfilling, just like eggs. Whatever you are not able to do with it, rely on negative spaces and context assumption to fill in the blanks.

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#softboiled
3 colors
462 downloads

Example by まるき
Example by まるき

Tags: simple, restricted

Singularity

Created by Royal_Naym

Singularity is a simple, easy to use 4 color palette. It's also one of the palettes I'm using for my new, ASCII inspired series of wallpapers. Black and white for contrast; red for objects of importance; green for detailing.

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