1A thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors.

1. 1.1 The range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture.
   I choose a palette of natural, earthy colors

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   • In this, the colour palette is darker and the drawings simpler and more stylised.
   • Its restrained palette, the sinuous, loopy drawing, and the interplay of seemingly simple forms and planes present a highly cerebral visual game.
   • Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
   • In 1626 he moved to Leiden, where he painted vanitas subjects and increasingly adopted the monochrome palette of Haarlem still-life painters.
   • Underlit by a blanket of fine coral sand, the colour of the ocean has the tropical palette of a Paul Gauguin painting and its turquoise-spearmint hues never dull with repeat viewing.
   • The reduced colour in this painting already reveals McCahon's sympathy for a monochrome palette.
   • When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages.
   • In the meantime, as you try to make up your mind, the striking palette and stylized figures are more than sufficient to hold your attention.
   • The colour palette is primarily pastel - baby pink, sherbet lemon, ice blue and lilac, with a splash of vibrant red in the suit range.
   • Rouault trained with Matisse at Moreau's academy and exhibited with the Fauves, but his palette of colors and profound subject matter place him as an early, if isolated Expressionist.
   • The colour palette encompasses charcoal greys, tawny autumnal greens, silver and white.
   • The palettes of these French artists, as well as the time the Scotsmen spent in the brilliant light of the south of France, had an important and lasting effect on their work.
   • The colour palette includes subdued beiges, burgundies and charcoal blues on high-back chairs and sectional wall panels.
   • If I were an artist, the colours on my palette would be browns, ochres and purples.
   • Later, however, he turned to oil on canvas; his palette became lighter, with an emphasis on yellows.
   • His minimalist style of drawing and limited palette of colours are far from painterly, however.
   • Japanese watercolours shown at Far East exhibitions in Paris in the late nineteenth century affected the compositions and palettes of Matisse, Whistler, and Degas.
   • His palette drew from nature: heavy, dense ochres, browns, taupes and alizarin crimson.
   • The rendering is so precise that these gouaches - each in a dominant palette of blues, greens, yellows or pinks - could pass for digital prints.
   • Her early work consisted mostly of impressionistic nudes and still lifes painted with a bold palette.
2. 1.2 The range or variety of tonal or instrumental color in a musical piece.
   he commands the sort of tonal palette that this music needs

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   • His dazzling virtuosity and sweeping tonal palette made the music truly live.
   • But in the end he realized that was another way he was being manipulated, his music put into a box, his musical palette circumscribed.
   • I grew up with my grandparents and their old-timey music, and my mom and dad were swingers in London in the '60s; they tried to broaden my musical palette.
   • The multicolored palette of a full symphony orchestra has been the perfect instrument to give voice to musical evocations of this Mediterranean land.
   • She manages beautifully subtle shifts in tempo without crossing over into the soupy, and she applies a large palette of tonal color tastefully.
   • This recently coined term describes bands that despite obvious rock influences produce music displaying a wider palette of musical styles.
   • Aficianados of Spanish music also enjoy some of the orchestral music, but this often turns out to be reworkings, within a larger palette, of piano music.
   • He's also broadened his musical palette to include horns and passages of distorted guitar.
   • Here, the composer shows you his emotional and musical palette at its widest, if not its deepest.
   • The Zehetmair Quartet has a huge tonal palette available, and uses it all as it strives to make Schumann's scores live for us.
   • His musical palette constantly overflows with colour, never garish yet sometimes opulent and sometimes sombre.
   • The composer uses an identical palette of instrumental colourings for his glorious finale.
   • Her melting tonal palette seemed to redefine the music.
   • Raff uses colour and has a fine palette that makes the music all the more attractive especially in the final Allegro.
   • Just as music has steadily extended its harmonic and dynamic palettes, so the normal range of tempos has probably grown.
   • The mono soundtrack likewise shows its age, with a thin, tinny aural palette and a woefully underequalized dialogue track.
   • Perhaps the rich palette of musical veins gushing out in Beloslava's songs are in some way connected to the many countries she has visited.
   • Many artists offer a wide-ranging palette of styles and sound treatments.
   • Nothing about Cathy could hide unnoticed, appear in muted pastels, or be restricted to the palette between pianissimo and mezzo piano.
   • Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette.
3. 1.3 (in computer graphics) the range of colors or shapes available to the user.
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   • So, here's a neat widget to work out safe web colour palettes.
   • A component is brought into a container, or user interface area, from a component palette.
   • These include such topics as histogram information, suggested palettes for low-color displays, fractal-image support and pixel calibration.
   • The 2004 update uses the tool palettes menu interface system introduced with Architectural Desktop.
   • This program allows the developer to create user interfaces quickly from a palette of standard objects.
   • The first lesson details the basics, such as the minimum requirements, and customising the work area, palettes and user interface.
   • I found it easy to mistake the frames palette for the layers palette when creating an animation.
   • Tool palettes provide centralized access to commonly used design tools.
   • As a CAD manager, have you ever wanted to turn off the ability of your team to customize toolbars and palettes?
   • See how web colour palettes change with colourblindness using Cal's Color Vision.
   • In the expert palette toolbar everything can be customised.
   • As I mentioned before, most of the useful tools are available as tabbed palettes, and this includes several image transformation tools.
   • Click on the ‘Magic Wand’ tool and highlight the ‘shape copy’ layer in the layer palette.
   • For example, using tool palettes, users can apply the Door tool to openings, windows and door and window assemblies, converting those objects to door objects.
   • The reason for this is that Mac computers and PC's both use completely different color palettes.
   • The graphical interface is very flexible, featuring multiple windows, tear-off tool palettes, and virtually unlimited Undo and Redo functions.
   • If you choose to use colors on your web pages from the web smart or unsafe color palettes, always view your pages on different browsers.
   • If the artist can't figure out how SVGA palettes work, it's the programmer who writes a color-reducing and palette-matching utility.
   • The Transitions and Effects palettes list all the available effects on one side and then offer a selection of pre-defined possibilities on the other.
   • It's a challenge to capture many features in just a screenshot or two, but you can see some of the widget palettes, properties, notebooks and method editors.
4. 1.4 A small flat case containing several separate shades of eyeshadow or other makeup product.
   our Essential Eyes palette has eight mix-and-match shades