A group of twenty colours (based on three lightnesses of RGBCMY, plus black and white) that serve a specific and practical purpose - pixels of these colours, when arranged and saved in an image, and the image is ran through a code interpreter, serve as code commands (or blank space) in the Piet programming language by David Morgan-Mar (though some details vary depending on the implementation of the image/code interpreter). The language was named after Piet Mondrain, whose abstract works of art Piet programs often resemble.

Tags: dadaism

A palette by Flying-Snake. "Five colors in two shades each supplemented with six shade gray scale."

The 3-Bit RGB palette, but with the colours adjusted to be perceptually linear at a gamma of 2.4 (A gamma of 2.2 works better with the lights on, and a gamma of 2.4 with the lights off... like night mode). This lends it a shiny, chrome-like effect similar to art you'd see on the Atari ST/Amiga, makes the colours less fluorescent, allows for good dark/background/low-contrast details (that's always been a pain on EGA games, as you can see), and makes for better colour ramping/gradient usage - especially in modern "limited truecolour" art instead of art that uses attribute blocks/tiles, ASCII, or sprites. If you like this and want to see more hardware palettes converted to look like this, write me a comment.

A custom palette designed by Levellass for her mod of Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die!, Ye Olde Pirate Modde. Although it replaces the standard CGA/EGA palette that the original game used to display, it is not a 1:1 replacement, so it is not suitable to recolor art made in the standard palette.

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  Ye Olde Pirate Modde (Levellass, Ceilick)

 

Restrictive, huh?

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  Shiny dials. - by Casei Solus

Tags: lgbt, trans, transgender, queer, nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, androgynous, gender, dadaism

What happens when you take Curly Brace's palette from Cave Story, correct the brightness and contrast, and then reduce it to four colours? Don't ask me... happy late Halloween?

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  Example by Katamaran Ulitochkina

 

A reduction of the Natural Colour System's 1952 colours into 8 colours, with brightness/contrast correction.

Tags: naturalistic, natural colour system, teal, mint, silver, mustard, beaver, crimson, many ramps, good ramps

A reduction of the Natural Colour System's 1952 colours into 16 colours, with brightness/contrast correction.

Tags: naturalistic, natural colour system, warm greys, warm grays, teal, peach, good ramps, many ramps

The 16-color palette used in The Amazing Spider-Man for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS (if VGA mode is selected).

Oekaki.nl reduced to 8 colors. Very unique and good for naturalistic pieces!