Palette

Not to be confused with palate or pallet.

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A palette (IPA: /ˈpælɨt/) is:

• a surface on which a painter mixes colour pigments. A palette may be made of wood, glass, plastic, ceramic tile or other inert material and can vary greatly in size and shape. The most commonly known type of painter\'s palette is made of thin wood board designed to be held in the artist\'s hand and rest on the artist\'s arm.
• Palette: the same type, but for mixing cosmetics.
• Cosmetic Palette: an archaeological form: Palette, from Ancient Egypt and SW Asia.
• a set of colours put on a palette, or in a more general sense, a particular set or quality of colours.
• an analogous range of choices in fine arts or design, e. g. Ravel’s orchestral palette.
• Palette (computing): in computer graphics, a set of colors.
• Palette window, in computing: a window type often containing tools.
• 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.
• Palette AOC, a wine AOC in the Provence region of southern France.
• Palette Records, a record label

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.

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