AuthorTopic: Make and share custom palettes (2 to 4096 colors, preferably 2 to 9)  (Read 4578 times)

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You can make and share palettes here. Don't rate palettes, just create a palette and describe uses for colors. Note that 3 and 9 color palettes can be used for ternary computer storage. My palettes are text-based so you can modify source code. It's in this format:
Code: [Select]
[color=black]█[/color]
black, blue, red, magenta, gray, lime, cyan, yellow, white, #ff7f00, etc...

My 2 color palette:

This is a basic 2-color palette, intended for basic text (think yellow on black). Could change the yellow color into cyan, green or white.

My 3 color palette:

The cyan makes a sky, the yellow is for sun. Dithering them results in green for grass. You could also dither yellow with black for dirt, or cyan with black for rain.

My 4 color palette:

This one adds red that could be used for fire and dithered with yellow. Also contains a ramp black-red-yellow that can be used for anti-aliasing.

Classic 8 color palette:

Can use any color by dithering. The palette colors are nice and saturated.

My 9 color palette:

Adds gray for anti-aliasing.

I have an image with binary storage palettes (I used my custom font):

16-color palette's utility is to complete biggest gaps (for human eyes) in hue circle, and to add some grays and brown. Colors can be inversed.
256-color palette is a websafe palette with anti-aliasing ramps to create in total 16 equal spaced shades of black-white, black-yellow, black-cyan and black-red.
4096-color palette uses 16 levels/4 bits for red, green and blue.
Grayscale and yellowscale are for anti-aliasing.
« Last Edit: October 15, 2016, 06:41:12 am by Piotr »

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Why don't you reply? Do you hate me?

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Why don't you reply? Do you hate me?
Is there a reason we should hate you? Do you want us to hate you?

Why does no one reply? I presume it's because people have grown tired of palette threads and discussing palettes or palette generators or really basic stuff like pixelling standard ellipses repeatedly.

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Yeah, well, personally I feel palettes can be a decent tool starting out, but can limit yourself a lot. I think it's a lot more constructive devising color guidelines which you follow (eg., characters are bright, saturated, background is desaturated, grey.)

Looks like I'm not the only one to share this sentiment.

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Why don't you reply? Do you hate me?
Is there a reason we should hate you? Do you want us to hate you?

Why does no one reply? I presume it's because people have grown tired of palette threads and discussing palettes or palette generators or really basic stuff like pixelling standard ellipses repeatedly.
Nevertheless I want to see your attempts in 2 to 9 color palettes, just like you did 16 color. Also I want to see which ellipses are best to you by making them. Also pixelling ellipses is not basic stuff, you must know how to calculate square roots.
« Last Edit: January 08, 2017, 06:41:50 pm by Piotr »

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Here is my 8 colors  ;D

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Here is my 8 colors  ;D

Nice! What will you make for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 colors? If you have time, do 16, 27, 32, 64, 81, 243, 256, 512, 729, 1024, 2048, 2187, 4096, 6561, 8192, 16384, 19683, 32768, 59049, 65536 color palettes. You can use a simple RGB cube generator for these large ones: http://img.uninhabitant.com/colourcube.html
« Last Edit: January 08, 2017, 04:01:15 pm by Piotr »

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Here is my 8 colors  ;D

Bump: Make 2 to 9 color palettes too, and maybe 16 and 27 and 32 if you can.