Meaning & use
palette
A board or surface artists use to mix colors, or the range of colors used in a work.
See it in a sentence
She squeezed dabs of red, blue, and yellow paint onto her wooden palette.
The designer chose a soft palette of grays and pastels for the nursery walls.
A note on using this word
Palette can refer to the physical tool artists mix paint on or, more broadly, to a chosen set of colors.
Words with a similar meaning
color schemerange
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