Visual Style
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Caves of Qud employs a restricted visual style that can be described as follows:
- There's a limited palette of 18 colors.
- Each tile (sprite) can have up to two colors besides transparent.
- Each tile is 16 pixels wide by 24 pixels tall.
Additionally, composite screens or art pieces in its style employ a vignette effectexpound and a scanline effectexpound.
Palette
Caves of Qud's palette comprises 18 specific colors, given in the following table:
| Code | Name | Hex | |
|---|---|---|---|
| r | dark red / crimson | #a64a2e | █ |
| R | red / scarlet | #d74200 | █ |
| o | dark orange | #f15f22 | █ |
| O | orange | #e99f10 | █ |
| w | brown | #98875f | █ |
| W | gold / yellow | #cfc041 | █ |
| g | dark green | #009403 | █ |
| G | green | #00c420 | █ |
| b | dark blue | #0048bd | █ |
| B | blue / azure | #0096ff | █ |
| c | dark cyan / teal | #40a4b9 | █ |
| C | cyan | #77bfcf | █ |
| m | dark magenta / purple | #b154cf | █ |
| M | magenta | #da5bd6 | █ |
| k | #0f3b3a | █ | |
| K | dark grey / black | #155352 | █ |
| y | grey | #b1c9c3 | █ |
| Y | white | #ffffff | █ |
Palette File for Pixel Art
Copy the following text block into Notepad or another plain text editor and save the file as Caves of Qud.pal. Then you can import it into a pixel art program such as Piskel or Aseprite.
JASC-PAL 0100 18 166 74 46 215 66 0 241 95 34 233 159 16 152 135 95 207 192 65 0 148 3 0 196 32 0 72 189 0 150 255 64 164 185 119 191 207 177 84 207 218 91 214 15 59 58 21 83 82 177 201 195 255 255 255