This toy tool allows you to create palettes of up to 4096 colors from the 12-bit RGB range a typical NEC-9801 was capable of displaying. (More or less.)
You will need a browser more advanced than Internet Explorer 8 and JavaScript enabled for it to work.
Why not? A number of reasons.
If you find the restriction too stifling, there are ten thousand other palette creators across the internet that don't have it—but to be frank, 4096 colors is plenty. Don't take my word for it; make a palette that big and try wrangling it for yourself.
Click on a color in the full palette below the fold to select it. Click on it again, or click the swatch in your selected palette to deselect it. There are more features, but that's the crux of it.
As for how you use it, that's a different story.
There aren't any rules. The important thing is that you have fun.
The idea is to encourage you to think of color in a non-absolute way. An atypical ordering scheme aids this process.
...Also real talk, this palette generation script runs fast. I'm sure I'll figure out some half-decent math around a more traditional hue-based ordering now that I know HSL is a thing for CSS colors, but for now this is what you get.
Contact me with the details so I can at least look into it! Twitter's probably fastest, but email works too.
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| G | |
| B |
There's nothing here yet! You can make a PNG out of the palette you've put together by clicking the "Create Palette Image" button.