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Restricted palette describes an image that uses a limited number of colours to fully render an image. A restricted palette typically involves only 2-4 distinct colours (however, some may feature as many as 5 or 6 colours). "Distinct" means that variations of light and shadow within the same colour do not count against an image being tagged with restricted pallete.

Related Tags

• black_and_white_and_red is a popular and striking tri-colour palette.
• color_swatch — sometimes shown in a restricted palette image to show the exact colours used.
• cool_colors and warm_colors — these tags can be used to describe the overall colour temperature in a restricted palette image.

Not to be confused with

• monochrome — this describes an image rendered using ONLY variations of light and shade within a single colour.
• Most commonly this is seen with greyscale and sepia.
• partially_colored — a step beyond spot colours, where large areas of an image are fully coloured, and other parts of the image are not.
• The most obvious example of this is a fully coloured character on an uncoloured, line art background.
• spot_color — a monochromatic or otherwise uncoloured image that features small, limited areas of colour.