A sample of colours from the playdate hardware. Colours sampled from digital demonstration artworks in the online manual.

Tags: playdate, 1bit, two, binary, hardware

A palette made for dark spaces filled with spooky blood, glowing red eyes in the darkness and castles haunted by vampires. The palette was originally made by Polyducks for a pixel collaboration on the Alisdaiross Discord server.

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  A palette example for the dungeon palette "a blood steeped corridor"
  - by Polyducks

Tags: spooky, ghost, monster, horror, dark, haunted

A palette made for ASCII mushrooms at fungi.neocities.org. The colours have multiple ramps to ensure they can mix pleasantly together, with a high contrast to read well when isolated in ASCII characters.

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  ASCII art by Polyducks made using Adel Faure's font JGS5. - by Polyducks

Tags: pastel, mushroom, fungi, polyducks, ascii, textmode

A true-to-hardware palette. Please note that the luminesence of the ZX Spectrum is dictated by the voltage output of the hardware (85% voltage for non-bright, 100% for bright) - so instead of using E/F values as dictated in the wikipedia article in the hex for non-bright/bright, the colours are instead D8/FF (D8 being 85% of FF). For example, non-bright red is given as EE0000 in the article - instead it has been portrayed here as D80000 to give as close to hardware output as possible on modern screens.

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  Example by Retro

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  Example by helpcomputer0

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  Example by helpcomputer0

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  Example by helpcomputer0

Tags: zxspectrum, hardware, computing, retro

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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  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

A simultaneously cosy, spooky and sunny palette for climbing over rocks and losing things in wells, picking flowers in the woods and making food for people you love. You have permission to use this in any of your projects. Please do tweet me if you do, I love to see your work!

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  Some scoops of ice cream. - by Casei Solus

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  Textmode image by Polyducks using the font 'Kitchen Sink' by Retroshark and Polyducks. - by Polyducks

Tags: sherbertshark, bright, retro

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  Textmode art for a distant castle. 8x8 textures feel appropriate for a gameboy palette ;~) - by Polyducks

Tags: gameboy, four, 4, polyducks, vivid, 2bit, scream

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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  Palette usage example by Polyducks

Tags: lego, lego2016, hardware, physical

A palette for a dark, gloomy cave, a place to bury your pokemon, or perhaps the wakening eye of a dragon. A palette by Polyducks.

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  View to a cave entrance. - by Casei Solus

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  CAVE. - by Matt Tereshkov

Tags: polyducks, gameboy, dark, blue, gloomy

A collection of colours used in early print media; sampled from various examples here: http://oa.letterformarchive.org/

The colours mostly rely on a black/red/orange/white scheme, but I brewed up companion cyan-greens which bridge across the blues/yellows.

For best results, use in big, punchy blocks.

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  Palette usage example by Polyducks

Tags: print, polyducks, vintage