Retro Palette Lab

Retro Palette Lab is a tool for developers working with retro systems to manage and create palettes in the required formats and color spaces.

Primarily designed to manage the various colour palettes required in retro game development, Retro Palette Lab also provides facilities to import an image to append its color information to a palette, generate gradients or fades between two colors using a a method appropriate for the target machine, export color palettes as binary files or text for use in source code.

When managing your colour palettes, you are able to name the colors and palettes to have them commented appropriately when exporting as source code, drag and drop to organize your palettes as required for your game or application and see and convert colors for many retro formats including:

Compact palette view
Grid layout
List layout
Colour details
Adding a colour
Creating a gradient
Selecting systems