01-31-2015, 12:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2015, 12:39 PM by DragonDePlatino.)
Heh. I can understand where you're coming from. As a matter of fact, the palette I'm working with on my newest project (the Dwarf Fortress graphics set) is mostly composed of colors from the 15-bit RGB colorspace. Working with multiples of 8 gives a nice contrast to your palettes.
Nevertheless, I still feel Dawnbringer 16 is the best 16-color palette ever created. It's not suitable for everything, but for a majority of things it will work very well. Take my DawnLike tileset, for example. There are also some insanely talented artists over at PixelJoint who pulled off some amazing things with the palette. All of the colors just blend so well with each other, and you can pull off these natural-looking 8-color or 10-color ramps with very little effort.
CGA, on the other hand...It's nearly impossible to pull off ramps. At best, you can only do 3-color ramps, and most look pretty terrible.
Nevertheless, I still feel Dawnbringer 16 is the best 16-color palette ever created. It's not suitable for everything, but for a majority of things it will work very well. Take my DawnLike tileset, for example. There are also some insanely talented artists over at PixelJoint who pulled off some amazing things with the palette. All of the colors just blend so well with each other, and you can pull off these natural-looking 8-color or 10-color ramps with very little effort.
CGA, on the other hand...It's nearly impossible to pull off ramps. At best, you can only do 3-color ramps, and most look pretty terrible.