![Default VGA palette (256 colors) serving for 4 different needs in a single colour table[1] The first 16 colours are encoded exactly as with all 16 colour modes (0Dh/0Eh/10h/12h) which in turn use the same 4 bit encoding as the colour attributes of all text modes (*1) The next 16 deliver an even lit 4 bit black (10h) to white (1Fh) grayscale ( binary coded gray scale) 216 (3x8x3x3) colours: an evenly spaced, HSV colour cylinder (*2) based on a 24 hue RGB wheel, starting at blue, with 8 subdivisions per R,G and B, resulting in 24 (3x8) discrete "hues". Each of those is present in 3 level of saturation (colourfulness) 3 level of intensity(value of brightness) 8 color (= 256 - (16 + 16 + 216)) definitions are guaranteed free for user applications ( user definable colours)](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/VGA_palette_with_black_borders.svg)
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Default VGA palette (256 colors) serving for 4 different needs in a single colour table[1]
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| Source | Psychonaut/ipalette.sh |
| Author | Psychonaut |
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- ↑ retrocomputing SE question: why-were-those-colors-chosen-to-be-the-default-palette-for-256-color-vga ?
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| current | 13:37, 13 May 2014 | | 512 × 512 (10 KB) | Perhelion | fix hairline bug |
| 10:55, 1 May 2014 |  | 512 × 512 (10 KB) | Perhelion | smaller code | |
| 09:00, 19 November 2007 |  | 512 × 512 (48 KB) | Psychonaut | == Summary == {{Information |Description=Default VGA palette |Source=User:Psychonaut/ipalette.sh |Date=2007-11-19 |Author=w:en:User:Psychonaut |Permission=public domain |other_versions=Image:VGA256-Standard_Subset.png }} == Licensing == {{PD |
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