color palette

Artist's shade range

A color palette is a range of colors used together in design, art, or decoration.

Originally the board on which painters arrange pigments, the term now typically describes a coordinated set of colors chosen for a project: The website's color palette uses muted blues and grays.

Software applications offer color palettes for selecting hues.

A palette can also describe the characteristic colors of a season, era, or aesthetic: an autumnal color palette, the earthy palette of 1970s interiors.

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Pantone · tint · chromaticity · saturation · CMYK · RGB · mood boards · warm colors · gradient · shade · cool colors · earth tones · jewel tones · tone · wavelength · spectrum · designer · mood

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Opposites
chromatic presence

color palettemonochrome

Single-color rendering

black and white · grayscale · achromatic · colorless · uncolored

visual organization

color paletteclashing colors

Inharmonious tones together

visual noise

visual complexity

color palettesolid color

Single unbroken hue

flat color

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color, palette

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G