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.

- Win a spiffy trophy + points which are rare and will look great in your profile.
+1000 Pts+500 Pts +250 Pts+100 Pts-HM*

* multiple honorable mentions may be awarded.

- Judges are your PJ Mods and select invited PJ members.

- Palettes will be judged on the basis of how it would work on the project theme, which will be kept a mystery to participants. But multi-purpose palettes always have a better chance.

- You may enter more than once but quality is better than quantity.

- A unique + original palette is the goal but a well balanced palette is very important even if your entry is monochromatic.

- Use this template for your submission.

You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF

That was fast! :D

Don't forget: The 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.

@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.

@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.

My submission - Impromptu-15

Tūī 16

Kirby 15

"Axol15"

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.

Here is my entry for the comp.


test piece:



Links if the embeds broke:
https://imgur.com/a/WqTZFTL
https://imgur.com/a/3HWJ9eu

Yes Jok your entry is in, but I can't edit this thread, will have to ask another mod.

can you please also edit mine to be called Tūī 15, because i'm a dumb ass who can't read or count