RETRO PALETTE DB

16 colors hand-picked by Zep for maximum vibe in minimum bytes.

The iconic 4-shade green palette of the original Dot Matrix Game Boy.

A cooler, grey-toned variant used in the Game Boy Pocket revision.

Default teal-to-black palette before game-specific palettes kick in.

The full 64-color NES PPU palette. Not all are unique — the system has 54 usable colors.

The SNES could display 256 of its 32,768 possible colors simultaneously. This is a common default palette.

The 16-color VIC-II chip palette, one of the most beloved retro palettes ever.

The infamous 4-color CGA magenta palette that defined early PC gaming.

Full 16-color CGA palette from the Color Graphics Adapter.

Enhanced Graphics Adapter — 64 possible colors, 16 displayable at once.

8 colors × 2 brightness levels (bright/normal). Colors are pure R, G, B combinations.

NTSC palette for the Atari 2600 TIA chip — 128 colors organized by hue.

The 16-color high-res palette of the Apple II, notorious for its magenta and green.

27-color palette from the Amstrad CPC hardware, based on RGB combinations.

The TMS9918A VDP palette used by MSX, ColecoVision, and SG-1000.

The Game Gear had a 4096-color palette (12-bit). This shows a common subset.

Only 4 shades of red — the only colors the Virtual Boy could display.

8 primary colors used by the UK teletext system. Bold and unapologetic.

Classic green phosphor monochrome terminal. 4 shades from black to bright green.

The warm amber alternative to green terminals, popular in IBM systems.