color palletes?
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 2:58pm
Topic: color palletes?
Posted By: scottfro
Subject: color palletes?
Date Posted: 11 October 2006 at 7:58am
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as i've been poking around the site, i've noticed a lot of talk regarding color palletes. would anyone mind explaining or linking me to a document that explains the importance of the color pallete you use particularly in art development for games?
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 11 October 2006 at 8:54am
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There is no one place/document that relates to color palettes in pixelart. This talk you speak of comes from many directions. In pixelart many feel that the less colors you use the better. This comes from the history of pixelart. Other palettes come from platform specific pixelarts, c-64, NES, for example. Many others use restricted color paletttes as a challenge to use other pixelart skills (dithering, for example) to create a piece. Of course then there's the dollers who make palettes and forever after own that palette and will hunt you down if you 'steal' their colors. On certain other works a piece can have row restrictions which limit color usage and requires color planning. Most of these things come from a time before computers/gaming had the ability to use millions of colors. We the pixelartists, are the keepers of this flame. There is no longer a need to be so restricted but we strive for purity. As to your own game development, experimentation, reference materials and artistic choice should be all you need. E: typos ------------- |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 11 October 2006 at 11:34am
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http://www.pixel-arts.org/pixelation/index.php?topic=922.0 - This might be a good read (the second post in the thread, that is). ------------- |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 11 October 2006 at 1:15pm
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Also, snader pointed out an intresting site to me. http://colourlovers.com/ - http://colourlovers.com/ It revolves around colors. They have palletes of all kinds. Doesn't explain the importance of good color choices though... ------------- 
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