Palette
All TIC-80 games use a palette of 16 colors drawn from 24-bit colorspace (16 million possible colors). The TIC-80 default palette for all new cartridges is SWEETIE-16. The game's starting palette can be modified using the Sprite Editor.
You can alter the palette at runtime using the poke command and poking into the PALETTE and PALETTE MAP areas of VRAM. For more temporary swaps (within a palette) while rendering sprites PALETTE MAP is your friend.
By combining poke and SCN creatively you can potentially display up to 2,176 colors simultaneously (16 colors x 136 scanlines). Each scanline is still restricted to 16 colors though.
Colors used in the code editor can be configured using the console config command.
See also:
- online TIC-80 palette-editing tool.
| Color | Index | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Black | 0 | 1A1C2C |
| Purple | 1 | 5D275D |
| Red | 2 | B13E53 |
| Orange | 3 | EF7D57 |
| Yellow | 4 | FFCD75 |
| Light Green | 5 | A7F070 |
| Green | 6 | 38B764 |
| Dark Green | 7 | 257179 |
| Dark Blue | 8 | 29366F |
| Blue | 9 | 3B5DC9 |
| Light Blue | 10 | 41A6F6 |
| Cyan | 11 | 73EFF7 |
| White | 12 | F4F4F4 |
| Light Grey | 13 | 94B0C2 |
| Grey | 14 | 566C86 |
| Dark Grey | 15 | 333C57 |
Or in a form that can be pasted into the palette editor:
1a1c2c5d275db13e53ef7d57ffcd75a7f07038b76425717929366f3b5dc941a6f673eff7f4f4f494b0c2566c86333c57
Some very old cartridges may still use this palette for backwards compatibility.