Palette

Not to be confused with palate or pallet.

An artist's palette

A palette (Template:Pron-en) is: (1) a rigid, flat surface on which a painter arranges and mixes paints. A palette is usually made of wood, plastic, ceramic or other hard, inert, nonporous 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; (2) a selection of colors, as used in a specific art object or in a group of works comprising a visual style.

Palette may also refer to:

• Cosmetic palette, an archaeological form
• Palette (computing), in computer graphics, a selection 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 Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in the Provence region of southern France
• Palette, a villages part of Le Tholonet, which gives its name to the Palette AOC
• Palette Records, a record label
• Palette lighting console, a DMX Lighting Console made by Strand Lighting, a division of Phillps.

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