File:Amstrad CPC ink numbers.png

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English: The Amstrad CPC colour palette, also showing which ink numbers to use in Locomotive BASIC, e.g. with the INK or BORDER commands, and the official colour names by Amstrad. The layout is based on a post by user MacDeath on the CPCWiki forum: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/cpc-palette/msg53168/#msg53168

Motivation: The Amstrad CPC palette order works like this: blue intensity is increased/cycled most quickly (from zero to half to full), then red intensity is the next slower cycle, and green is the slowest component. Obviously, that means that 0 = black and 26 = white, but the colours in between are a jumbled mess when presented in ink order. Whereas this arrangement here is one that makes more sense artistically, grouping light (pastel), dark, and medium colours together on different rows and putting the six colours where one component is full, one is half, and one is zero in a block on the right-hand side.

Date

23 December 2023

Source

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Author

Morn

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Source code

# Show Amstrad CPC palette and INK numbers and names

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

SIZE = 500
BORDER = 20

fnt = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Courier Prime.ttf', SIZE//3)
fnt2 = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Courier Prime.ttf', SIZE//10)
fnt3 = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/TTF/IBMPlexSans-SemiBold.ttf', SIZE//1.7)
out = Image.new("RGB", (9 * SIZE, 4 * SIZE))
d = ImageDraw.Draw(out)

# CPC color layout as in the image by MacDeath on the CPCWiki forum:
# https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/cpc-palette/msg53168/#msg53168
cols = (
"h000h000hh0hhh00hh000hf0fh0",
"f000f000ff0fff00ffhhhh0ff0h",
"fhhhfhhhffhfffhhfffff0hf0fh",
)

# colour names from Chapter 1, page 48 of the CPC6128 user manual:
names = (
"Black",
"Blue",
"Bright Blue",
"Red",
"Magenta",
"Mauve",
"Bright Red",
"Purple",
"Bright Magenta",
"Green",
"Cyan",
"Sky Blue",
"Yellow",
"White",
"Pastel Blue",
"Orange",
"Pink",
"Pastel Magenta",
"Bright Green",
"Sea Green",
"Bright Cyan",
"Lime Green",
"Pastel Green",
"Pastel Cyan",
"Bright Yellow",
"Pastel Yellow",
"Bright White",
)

def getcol(c):
    "Convert color text to tuple"
    o = []
    for x in c:
        if x == "h":
            o.append(128)
        elif x == "f":
            o.append(255)
        else:
            o.append(0)

    # based on pseudocode at https://www.grimware.org/doku.php/documentations/devices/gatearray
    ink = 0
    if c[0] == "f": ink += 6
    if c[0] == "h": ink += 3
    if c[1] == "f": ink += 18
    if c[1] == "h": ink += 9
    if c[2] == "f": ink += 2
    if c[2] == "h": ink += 1
    return tuple(o), ink

for j in range(3):
    for i in range(9):
        c, ink = getcol(cols[j][3 * i:3 * i + 3])
        p1 = i * SIZE + BORDER, (j + 1) * SIZE + BORDER
        p2 = (i + 1) * SIZE - BORDER, (j + 2) * SIZE - BORDER
        p3 = p1[0], p1[1] + SIZE//3
        d.rectangle((p1, p2), fill = c)
        d.text(p1, "%u" % ink, font = fnt, fill = (0, 0, 0), align = "left", valign = "top", stroke_width = 15)
        d.text(p1, "%u" % ink, font = fnt, fill = (255, 255, 255), align = "left", valign = "top")
        d.text(p3, names[ink], font = fnt2, fill = (0, 0, 0), align = "left", valign = "top", stroke_width = 6)
        d.text(p3, names[ink], font = fnt2, fill = (255, 255, 255), align = "left", valign = "top")

d.text((1.6 * SIZE, SIZE//6), "Amstrad CPC palette", font = fnt3, fill = (255, 255, 255))

out.save("Amstrad_CPC_ink_numbers_names_header_plex.png")

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:17, 23 December 2023	4,500 × 2,000 (347 KB)	Morn	change font
	16:27, 23 December 2023	4,500 × 2,000 (343 KB)	Morn	add title
	15:59, 23 December 2023	4,500 × 1,500 (293 KB)	Morn	add colour names
	12:51, 23 December 2023	4,500 × 1,500 (169 KB)	Morn	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard