Art Term

Palette

A palette is a smooth, flat surface on which artists set out and mix their colours before painting, often designed to be held in the hand

Jim Dine
Palette II (1969)
Tate

The term also refers to the range of colours habitually used by and characteristic of an artist.

A palette in computer graphics is a chosen set of colours that are each assigned a number, and it is this number that determines the colour of the pixel.

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