palette

/ˈpæl.ɪt/

nounpal · ette

Think: an artist’s PAL has an ETTE (a little helper) holding the colors—PAL + ETTE = palette.

Yes, it's palette. Don’t confuse it with pallet (shipping platform) or pallete—palette ends with -ette.

Definitions

  1. nounA thin board or pad used by an artist for holding and mixing paints.
  2. nounThe range of colors used by an artist, designer, or in a particular work or style (e.g., a “warm color palette”).

Examples

  • “The painter mixed blue and white on her palette to make a soft sky color.”
  • “For the website redesign, they chose a calm palette of greens and grays.”
  • “He cleaned his palette carefully after the art class ended.”

Synonyms

color schemerange of colorsset of colorsspectrum

Antonyms

monochrome

Translations

ES paleta (de pintor)PT paleta (de pintor)FR palette

Common misspellings

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