Feature 05 - Generic 16 color palette

[Arachne]

I ended up doing what Helm did (topmost ramp), but I wanted to keep my purple.


I have yet to brighten those dark shades. I think my next project needs to be Sunny Sunflower's journey to the Sun

[Arne]

Sweet mockups!

Hmm yeah, a purple tint could be interesting (to provide some better hue coverage). How about 90,85,180 for the dark blue? Should it be lighter maybe? Less saturated or more?



I noticed the little nudge helm did on the dark cyan-grey. If darker, it works better for subtle BG 'highlights', while also ramping better with the dark blue. However, I think it also shouldn't wander too far away from the grey, so I'm kinda split on that issue.

However, I did pull the grey down a bit in value, but mainly to make it less similar in value to the light sky, and bring it a bit closer to the dark cyan to improve the grey ramp overall.

[Feron]

i'm not feeling that purple water im afraid.  whilst a purple hue would be nice, how many things in nature are actually purple; obergines, rare plants, grapes?

[Helm]

how many things in nature are actually purple; obergines, rare plants, grapes?

A morose and languid feeling of dispondency.

[Arne]

Actually, I'm not a huge fan of purple either. I'd probably go the other way on that dark blue, namely: 0,100,140 - a whimpy blue-green-grey. (probably too whimpy for sprite stuff.)

[Conzeit]

strange, both helm and feron have purple in their avatars.

what's going on people it's PURPLE we're talking about here!  I feel it is the dark green tone the one that isnt that useful...

[ptoing]

strange, both helm and feron have purple in their avatars.

Durr, smart boy, Helms is originally made from the CGA palette 1 which has that icky purple and he just changed the grey to yellow.
And Ferons has purple I believe because purple works quite well to create an otherworldly atmosphere.

And I think that dark green is ace.

[Helm]

THE SECRET PURPLE

[Cow]

For what it's worth, I think the greens are awesome. Maybe you could merge the two middle tones on the yellows ramp to make room for a purple? ...or am I missing something?

Great palette so far, very fun to work with.

[Feron]

A morose and languid feeling of dispondency.

For a non-native english speaker, your vocabularly astounds me.  I'm going to show my ignorance and ask what those words mean, not even google could help me!

strange, both helm and feron have purple in their avatars.

Indeed, we do.  However neither mine nor helm's avatars are game-mockups or sprites, which i believe this pallette is primarily for?

Maybe you could merge the two middle tones on the yellows ramp to make room for a purple?

Whilst looking at them side by side, the do seem a little similar, however i think merging them would definitely set this back a stage.  the darker is used as a buffer, as going from orange/yellow to brown would be a very harsh transition.  For some reason i find blues can go from dark colors to light without a buffer and pull it off, but it always seems a bit uglier with yellows.