15 Color Palette Comp
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
Forum Discription: Submit pixel art project ideas/templates or contribute to an existing pixel art collaboration.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26360
Printed Date: 06 September 2025 at 1:33am
Topic: 15 Color Palette Comp
Posted By: Gecimen
Subject: 15 Color Palette Comp
Date Posted: 13 August 2018 at 2:18am
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Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple. Competition closes in 2 weeks, August 28, 2018. (CLOSED!) - The winning palette will be used on PJs next ISOcollab project. If you submit a palette you acknowledge that it will be used by others for the purpose of this project and credit may not be posted by participants if they submit their project piece to their gallery but you will get overall credit for it. These palettes are not to be considered art so please do not submit to your galleries. Its best to assume that others may use your palette beyond this project. By entering you are giving permission to others to use.
- Judges are your PJ Mods and select invited PJ members. - A unique + original palette is the goal but a well balanced palette is very important even if your entry is monochromatic.
You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF |
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 14 August 2018 at 6:11am
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Submissions/Entry List If you don't see your palette added to this post within 24 hours please contact a Mod or post a comment below. StarlitSunset - Oh hell, pastel 15  Gyhoket  Drazile -
DRZ15A  jeremy -
Tūī 15  pyrometal - Acid 15  SnugBoat - Kirby 15  Eggy - Untitled  Eggy - SOFTY 15  CuriousBeefJerky - Magic 15  Nevercreature - Untitled  Axolotl - Axol15  mordfikosz - MORD15  Night - Equpix15  Fusionnist - Untitled  Reo - QUICK15  Ridley126 - Untitled  maruki - Summer Dream  AdigunPolack - AAP-RadiantXV  jok - autum15  jok - another one  |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 14 August 2018 at 8:40am
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That was fast! :D
Don't forget: The http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26080 - GrafX2 Toolbox v1.4 has a script to automatically generate the template (with all Hex-values filled in). You find it via main-menu: [Palette]-->[Special Ops]-->[To Brush]-->(PalTable w/ Hex-values). Or just run the script "pic_db_PaletteTablePJ.lua" directly. Just set colors to 15 and press OK. |
Posted By: StarlitSunset
Date Posted: 17 August 2018 at 9:13am
| Submitted my palette, and it hasn't been added here yet. Thank you c: |
Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 17 August 2018 at 10:03am
@StarlitSunset; submit your palette hear under this forum tread. As you can see in the above rules, color palettes are not considered a pixel art, so for this reason they can not enter the gallery.  |
Posted By: StarlitSunset
Date Posted: 17 August 2018 at 10:34am
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@Irenaart - ooh, gotcha. That's what I get for half-assed reading.
Here's my first submission: Oh hell, pastel 15
Edit: Sorry, guys. Thanks for helping me format it the desired way. Here are the examples separately. 
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Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 17 August 2018 at 10:43am
@StarlitSunset; really nice palette. But please upload it also in the form of the upper template (at the end of the rules  ). It's very cute this way but in the end all the pallets will be placed one under the other in the same shape/format for better viewing.
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Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 17 August 2018 at 2:10pm
| @StarlitSunset: You can still post examples and mock-ups in this thread. Just keep the palette template in its original form. |
Posted By: Gyhoket
Date Posted: 18 August 2018 at 2:56am
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My submission - Impromptu-15
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Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 18 August 2018 at 11:03pm
DRZ15A |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 19 August 2018 at 5:57am
Tūī 16
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Posted By: pyrometal
Date Posted: 19 August 2018 at 10:03am
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Acid 15  By participating I automatically veto my priviledge to vote as a mod. This palette is purposely designed to have minimal neutral colors. In fact their is only one (50% grey) to help with midrange color transitions.
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Posted By: SnugBoat
Date Posted: 20 August 2018 at 11:40am
Kirby 15
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Posted By: Eggy
Date Posted: 21 August 2018 at 3:02am
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Eh, something random I guess, I made this several days ago but didn't feel like submitting it until now. I have no clue how to test my palette properly. EDIT: Here's another palette, this one a little more "perfected". I'm calling it SOFTY 15
I also forgot to mention I used DB's template generation script for Grafx2 for my palettes. Saves me the hassle of manually editing the given template, thanks a lot man! 
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Posted By: CuriousBeefJerky
Date Posted: 21 August 2018 at 8:33pm
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Magic 15   Designed to do a range of magical effects, but has a lack of browns for wood and "natural" skin tones.
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Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 23 August 2018 at 3:01am
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My entry An example:  |
Posted By: Axolotl
Date Posted: 23 August 2018 at 1:47pm
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"Axol15" |
Posted By: mordfikosz
Date Posted: 26 August 2018 at 2:45am
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My entry for the 15 color compo. "MORD15." |
Posted By: Night
Date Posted: 26 August 2018 at 8:47am
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Here's my palette, which I'll call "Equpix15":
Here's also a piece I made specifically to test it: 
It was important for me to create a balanced palette, so this is how I went about it: 
First, I decided to reduce the palette into 14 colours, leaving the 15th for later under the assumption it's probably going to be a neutral mid-tone. Then I divided the palette into two main groups (A & B) 7 colours each -- shadows and lights. I decided to further subdivide the existing groups; requiring me to subtract one colour from each group, so that the new groups remain balanced and even. Under the shadow group (A), the two major groups (1-3 & 4-6) each represented a different shade of shadow with one being darker than the other, and the remaining colour (13) which is also under the umbrella of "shadow", I decided to categorise as "black", basically being the darkest colour in the palette. Very similarly, the light group (B) had two major groups (7-9 & 10-12), with one being darker than the other, and then the remaining colour (14), I categorised as "white", being the lightest colour in the palette. Dealing with the colouration of the lights and shadows I went with a pretty classical approach, I first deiced that the shadows should lean to blue and the lights lean to yellow , imitating the blueish colour of shadows from the sky and the yellowish tint of lights from the sun, as seen in nature; doing this both unifies the entire palette , and creates a strong complementary contrast between the lights and shadows. Knowing this, I also knew that the yellows technically should be more desaturated than other colours in the shadow group, and that blues should be more desaturated in the lights group. Additionally, the shadows and lights followed the simple idea of shadows being greyer, and lights being more saturated, which makes the colours glow somewhat. I ended up going with 3 base colours with different alternations in all the subdivided groups, those colours being blue, red and green, each colour respectively being generally darker than the one after. The reds in the shadows group (1 & 4) ended up becoming more akin to purple, and the reds in the lights group a lot more saturated (7) and yellowish (10). The blues in the light groups essentially became cyans (8 & 11), or greener. The greens became lime coloured (9) and yellow (12). Following the logic established before about the colouration of lights and shadows, the darkest colour (13) leans to blue, and the lightest (14) to yellow. With the remaining colour (15), I went with a brownish one due to it being an important colour when it comes to nature, and also to give the yellow a proper shadow colour, and to balance the transition of the orange slightly to the shadows. Some of the weaknesses that are quite apparent to me are the difficulty of creating skintones, the possible heavy reliance on purples when it comes to shadow transitions, and the lack of greys. |
Posted By: CuriousBeefJerky
Date Posted: 26 August 2018 at 12:34pm
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Revisiting my palette, I noticed a lack of a middle neutralizer, and so combined the two oranges, added a middle grey, and adjusted the other colors to fit better. As such, this is just an updated version of the same palette.  |
Posted By: Fusionnist
Date Posted: 26 August 2018 at 1:05pm
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Here is my entry for the comp.
test piece: 
Links if the embeds broke: https://imgur.com/a/WqTZFTL https://imgur.com/a/3HWJ9eu |
Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 27 August 2018 at 8:55am
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QUICK15
And my various doodles to test it out 
It's usually very fun to judge these...but since I had started this why not post it. |
Posted By: Ridley126
Date Posted: 27 August 2018 at 2:56pm
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Thought I'd give it a try, here's my submission! |
Posted By: maruki
Date Posted: 27 August 2018 at 7:55pm
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here's mine
Summer Dream
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Posted By: AdigunPolack
Date Posted: 27 August 2018 at 11:59pm
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Since I believe in saving the best for last, here is my newest and quite unusually interesting 15-color palette entitled “AAP-RadiantXV” specifically designed for this competition: I have been seriously, thoroughly working and working all the two (2) weeks of competition time on perfecting it, as well as quite a ton of damn good tweaking to make it more of a rather unique well-balanced one while avoiding over-saturation on any of the colors period in order to make them all a whole lot more readable and pleasing to the eyes... which is all the main aim of my AAP-RadiantXV palette for just 15 colors in all. It is quite excellent for creating skin tones, and specially designed with a *main* emphasis on easily making natural materials in mind as much more accurately as ever — such as stone, rock, crystals, dirt, sand, slime, wood, mud, grass, blood, water, fire, and so rather much more — like in this vital example of mine right here that I have just created to demonstrate how well this palette works in pixel-art form:  ...and here now are the quick specs for my AAP-RadiantXV palette indeed to help get you an even deeper and better idea on how to use it, too:  Thank you so very much, everyone, and do enjoy this brand-new palette!! ;) And I quite especially thank all the wonderful staff at PixelJoint for coming up with this absolutely brilliant competition here that I thoroughly enjoyed entering, too!!!
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Posted By: jok
Date Posted: 28 August 2018 at 11:07pm
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I don't follow the idea of 'all around' multi-purpose palettes too much. For every project, I try to construct a new one (to fit idea the best way) believing that doing otherwise would be an effect of laziness ;) But here is quite fun, original (imho) palette. jok_autum15 As there is no yellow in this one above - here is another version too:
Ah, one more thing - this palettes are 6bit only. From my experience: more restrictions, more fun, and place for imagination :) |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 29 August 2018 at 2:41am
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This has been a wonderful palette compo, many thanks everyone for participating! The compo is now closed.
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Posted By: jok
Date Posted: 29 August 2018 at 4:36am
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"Submissions/Entry List If you don't see your palette added to this post within 24 hours please contact a Mod or post a comment below." Hi - Do you plan to include my entry too? |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 29 August 2018 at 9:28am
| Yes Jok your entry is in, but I can't edit this thread, will have to ask another mod. |
Posted By: jok
Date Posted: 29 August 2018 at 10:11am
| cool, thanks! |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 31 August 2018 at 4:30am
| can you please also edit mine to be called Tūī 15, because i'm a dumb ass who can't read or count |