Palette

A palette is:

• a thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on.
• a set of colours put on a palette, or in a more general sense, a particular set or quality of colours.
• a designated subset of the total range of colours supported by a computer graphics system. Each colour in the palette is assigned a number, and for each pixel, one of these numbers is stored. This number determines the colour of the pixel. Palettes allow images comprising a small number of colours to be stored using a relatively modest amount of graphics memory. Computer graphics systems using a palette include EGA and VGA (for the IBM PC) and the Tiki 100.
• the valve under an organ pipe which is connected to the keyboard(s)—as opposed to the stop valve.
• the name of a mannequin humanoid robot designed for the fashion and service industry by Tatsuya Matsui of Flower Robotics, Inc.

A palette should not be confused with the following orthographically distinct items:

• palate, the roof of the mouth
• pallet, a holder for goods for use with a forklift