Palette
noun
A thin board with curved edges and a hole for the thumb, used by artists to mix their paints on while they are painting.
She dipped her paintbrush into the blue paint on her palette.
Often appears as...
- artist's palette
- color palette
noun
The range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture.
The artist's palette featured vibrant, bold colors.
Often appears as...
- color palette
- muted palette
noun
The range of colors or patterns available for a particular product or range of products, especially computer accessories or screen displays.
The graphic designer chose a fresh palette of colors for the website design.
Often appears as...
- color palette
- digital palette
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The range of roles or character types that an actor, singer, or other performer is competent to perform.
The actor had a wide palette of characters he could expertly portray.
Often appears as...
- wide palette
- musical palette
noun
A thin board with curved edges and a hole for the thumb, used by artists to mix their paints on while they are painting.
She dipped her paintbrush into the blue paint on her palette.
Often appears as...
- artist's palette
- color palette
noun
The range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture.
The artist's palette featured vibrant, bold colors.
Often appears as...
- color palette
- muted palette
noun
The range of colors or patterns available for a particular product or range of products, especially computer accessories or screen displays.
The graphic designer chose a fresh palette of colors for the website design.
Often appears as...
- color palette
- digital palette
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The range of roles or character types that an actor, singer, or other performer is competent to perform.
The actor had a wide palette of characters he could expertly portray.
Often appears as...
- wide palette
- musical palette
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Remember, this palette is a physical board artists hold to mix colors.
The painter cleaned his palette after finishing the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative Tool
A palette is essential for blending paints to create custom colors.
On her palette, she mixed red and white to make pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Palette
Don't confuse it with 'pallet', a wooden platform for moving cargo.
His studio had several palettes but no wooden pallets.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Remember, this palette is a physical board artists hold to mix colors.
The painter cleaned his palette after finishing the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative Tool
A palette is essential for blending paints to create custom colors.
On her palette, she mixed red and white to make pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Palette
Don't confuse it with 'pallet', a wooden platform for moving cargo.
His studio had several palettes but no wooden pallets.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Remember, this palette is a physical board artists hold to mix colors.
The painter cleaned his palette after finishing the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Creative Tool
A palette is essential for blending paints to create custom colors.
On her palette, she mixed red and white to make pink.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Palette
Don't confuse it with 'pallet', a wooden platform for moving cargo.
His studio had several palettes but no wooden pallets.
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The Costumes PIPE Killing...
others attention to details amazing and costume guys have an amazing job as soon as you put the costume on and you said what Gillan say at times you don't even realise what's real what's not because it is so what is some well done and well thought out we sort of got a very wide palette of looks and textures and colors which i think is it's good that's what I
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Why Do Gorillas Have...
actually be quite gentle particularly the small or a small youngster or something do gorillas eat bananas so i guess the short answer is yes they do out in the wild they're more likely to eat banana so they're but the bananas they have there are less high in sugars they're less cultivated for our palette like the ones
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Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
the molecules that are preserved and just the knowledge that they may exist we may be able to you know go straight from the field for example into an instrument where we can then image them properly without any contamination and sort of like she said add additional colors onto the palette of reconstructing ancient
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The story we tell about...
accounting for 50 percent of the world's millennials, it's clear that the white, often male, heterosexual narrative of the millennial is only telling half the story. Now, there's many people trying to broaden the palette. They're fighting to get their stories told and bust the millennial stereotype.
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It's OK to feel...
I was here with you at the moment of your birth. There's nothing you can do to lose me. You can't fail. You can't do this wrong. You are infinitely, bottomlessly loved." And it's so interesting to me that the opposite of fear in my life, in my emotional landscape, on the color palette,
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Lessons from fashion's...
charming aspects can breathe a little extra life into a dying trend there's lots of virtues of copying one that a lot of cultural critics have pointed to is that we now have a much broader palette of design choices to choose from than we ever have before and this is
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The science of skin...
and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring. Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened. As a result of our ancestor's adaptability, today the planet is full of people with a vast palette of skin colors,
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Johanna Blakely: Lessons...
can actually have some charming aspects, can breathe a little extra life into a dying trend. There's lots of virtues of copying. One that a lot of cultural critics have pointed to is that we now have a much broader palette
Video examples
How brass instruments...
has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune. The musician's skillful manipulation of every part of the process from lungs, to lips, to the mouthpiece, to the instrument itself creates an amazing palette of pitches
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We Could Kick-Start Life...
An empty universe in this regard, I think, can be viewed as an wide open palette for solutions waiting to be discovered. But should we do it just because we can?
Video examples
The Costumes PIPE Killing...
others attention to details amazing and costume guys have an amazing job as soon as you put the costume on and you said what Gillan say at times you don't even realise what's real what's not because it is so what is some well done and well thought out we sort of got a very wide palette of looks and textures and colors which i think is it's good that's what I
Video examples
Why Do Gorillas Have...
actually be quite gentle particularly the small or a small youngster or something do gorillas eat bananas so i guess the short answer is yes they do out in the wild they're more likely to eat banana so they're but the bananas they have there are less high in sugars they're less cultivated for our palette like the ones
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
the molecules that are preserved and just the knowledge that they may exist we may be able to you know go straight from the field for example into an instrument where we can then image them properly without any contamination and sort of like she said add additional colors onto the palette of reconstructing ancient
Video examples
The story we tell about...
accounting for 50 percent of the world's millennials, it's clear that the white, often male, heterosexual narrative of the millennial is only telling half the story. Now, there's many people trying to broaden the palette. They're fighting to get their stories told and bust the millennial stereotype.
Video examples
It's OK to feel...
I was here with you at the moment of your birth. There's nothing you can do to lose me. You can't fail. You can't do this wrong. You are infinitely, bottomlessly loved." And it's so interesting to me that the opposite of fear in my life, in my emotional landscape, on the color palette,
Video examples
Lessons from fashion's...
charming aspects can breathe a little extra life into a dying trend there's lots of virtues of copying one that a lot of cultural critics have pointed to is that we now have a much broader palette of design choices to choose from than we ever have before and this is
Video examples
The science of skin...
and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring. Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened. As a result of our ancestor's adaptability, today the planet is full of people with a vast palette of skin colors,
Video examples
Johanna Blakely: Lessons...
can actually have some charming aspects, can breathe a little extra life into a dying trend. There's lots of virtues of copying. One that a lot of cultural critics have pointed to is that we now have a much broader palette
Video examples
How brass instruments...
has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune. The musician's skillful manipulation of every part of the process from lungs, to lips, to the mouthpiece, to the instrument itself creates an amazing palette of pitches
Video examples
We Could Kick-Start Life...
An empty universe in this regard, I think, can be viewed as an wide open palette for solutions waiting to be discovered. But should we do it just because we can?
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Kathleen Robertson
Canadian Actress
Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
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Janet Echelman
American Artist
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.
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Vanna Bonta
American Novelist
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Washed Out
American Musician
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh Actor
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.
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Joan Smalls
Puerto Rican Model
When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
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Marc Chagall
French Artist
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
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David Chang
American Chef
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
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Willam Belli
American Actor
I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian Musician
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
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Kathleen Robertson
Canadian Actress
Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
Quote examples
Janet Echelman
American Artist
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.
Quote examples
Vanna Bonta
American Novelist
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Quote examples
Washed Out
American Musician
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
Quote examples
Rhys Ifans
Welsh Actor
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.
Quote examples
Joan Smalls
Puerto Rican Model
When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
Quote examples
Marc Chagall
French Artist
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Quote examples
David Chang
American Chef
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
Quote examples
Willam Belli
American Actor
I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.
Quote examples
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian Musician
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
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