Sixteen Color Palettes

The Assignment

Design a palette of 16 colors. Take into consideration a variety of tasks: search, sort, legibility, reproduction, and expressiveness. Rationalize your choice.

The Palettes Chosen

CMYK Uniform axis sampling Henry Chiu's Palette

Wad's Palette Paul Christie's Palette

RGB Uniform volume sampling

Reproduction of Real Images

The following images are the AMG Card test image, rendered using the above palettes. Adobe Photoshop's (v3.0) error diffusion algorithm was used in all the images.

Image rendered using Henry's palette (designed for cartoons.)
Image rendered using Paul's palette (generated by training on a small set of real images.)
Image rendered using the palette derived by uniformly sampling along the CMYK color axes.
Image rendered using the palette derived by uniformly sampling the RGB color space.
Image rendered using Wad's color palette.

Return to Wad's Color Notes

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CMYK Uniform axis sampling	Henry Chiu's Palette

Wad's Palette	Paul Christie's Palette

RGB Uniform volume sampling