Commodore 64 Palette Converter

Sixteen colours, 1982.

Unprocessed source photograph — Original

Photograph converted to the Commodore 64 palette with Jarvis-Judice-Ninke dithering — Commodore 64 · Jarvis-Judice-Ninke

Convert your image to Commodore 64

The C64 offered sixteen fixed colours with an unusual, slightly desaturated character: muted browns and purples alongside a limited set of primaries.

Those in-between tones make it more forgiving than its colour count suggests, and its distinctive cast is instantly recognisable to anyone who grew up with the machine.

Warm-toned images, and a home-computer look distinct from console palettes.

Other palettes

Game Boy NES CGA Apple II ZX Spectrum PICO-8 Black and White (1-bit)Grayscale 4 Grayscale 8 Grayscale 16

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Floyd-Steinberg Atkinson Ordered (Bayer)Jarvis-Judice-Ninke Stucki Burkes Sierra-3

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