Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: victornecromancer on October 22, 2017, 06:58:10 pm

Title: Universal Color Palette
Post by: victornecromancer on October 22, 2017, 06:58:10 pm
Hello guys. I read some tutorials and i learning how to build a good universal palette. Is this good? I can improve? Some colors are missing?

(sorry bad english)

(https://image.ibb.co/dqizQm/Palheta.png)

Title: Re: Universal Color Palette
Post by: eishiya on October 22, 2017, 08:00:22 pm
Are you designing this palette for limited-palette hardware where the goal is to effectively reproduce any image in some limited number of colours, or for some creative purpose? How will it be used? If you're not working for some limited hardware, you're creating a palette that's a small subset of colours already available to the user - but to what end?

I don't ask this to be snarky, I'm asking so that I can give you more useful feedback based on the answer.


With any palette, the goal is generally to provide as many of the colours needed most frequently as possible, at the expense of less useful colours, while fitting under some limit on the total number of colours. Historically this limit was determined by hardware, nowadays it's determined largely by aesthetic preferences. When the entire RGB space (or some other large colour space) is available, the point of using a palette as opposed to picking directly from the entire available colour space is to make the process of choosing colours simpler - the fewer options there are, the easier it is to make a good decision. But whose decisions are you trying to streamline?

What counts as a "good decision" varies from application to application. And that is precisely why hardly anyone makes "universal" palettes. Palettes designed to reproduce arbitrary images (photos, etc) usually give great coverage at the expense having harmony since they have to cover everything - creating harmonious images means choosing an even smaller subset of the palette. More harmonious palettes where most of the palette is likely to be useful for any given project are, by their nature, limited in the types of images they can (re)create. So, what sort of palette are you aiming for, and why?
Title: Re: Universal Color Palette
Post by: victornecromancer on October 22, 2017, 08:34:05 pm
Thanks for the reply friend!

Well... I honestly don't know why xD I think it was for study purposes only. But your line of thinking made me realize that this palette will be useless without some hardware limitation (for now I do not want to do that), but i found her cute, so I decided to see what you think about it :v really thanks!