Color

Retro palette

Palettes of real hardware: Game Boy, CGA, C64, ZX, NES, PICO-8.

Retro palette: a color effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
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Controls

hardware
Which machine’s colours the picture is forced into: Game Boy green, CGA cyan and magenta, the C64 sixteen
match by
How a colour finds its nearest neighbour in the palette: by colour, or by brightness alone. The second keeps the tones and drops the hues
dither
Mixes noise into the tone before matching, so a flat area breaks into two palette colours instead of one hard band
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.

Starting points

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