This article is a list of the color palettes for notable computer graphics, terminals and video game console hardware.
More specific articles are linked from the name of each palette, for the test charts, samples, simulated images, and further technical details (including references).
The result is that there is no single common standard nomenclature or classification taxonomy which can encompass every computer color palette.
In order to organize the material, color palettes have been grouped following arbitrary but rational criteria.
And finally, specific manufacturers' color palettes implemented in many representative early personal computers and videogame consoles of various brands.
The distinction is based more on broad 8-bit and 16-bit computer ages or generations (around 1975–1985 and 1985–1995, respectively) and their associated state of the art in color display capabilities.
For the purpose of this article, the term monochrome palette means a set of intensities for a monochrome display, and the term RGB palette is defined as the complete set of combinations a given RGB display can offer by mixing all the possible intensities of the red, green, and blue primaries available in its hardware.
These full RGB palettes employ the same number of bits to store the relative intensity for the red, green and blue components of every image's pixel color.
These are selections of colors based on evenly ordered RGB levels, mainly used as master palettes to display any kind of image within the limitations of the 8-bit pixel depth.