Palette Guidelines

Most palettes on our site are sourced from Lospec and @BadPalettes. We try our best to retrieve the palette data and the creator's username, but palettes that have been deleted by Lospec's servers can no longer be retrieved. We use some probing and guesswork to find these submissions, but this is a manual process with little to no automation, and due to this site's limitations, it means we may miss entire palettes if it has been deleted prior to our search.

In case we cannot find the creator's username, we will label it as made by [unknown]. If you happen to know who created the palette, feel free to contact us - we will gladly update the missing data. Additionally, if you had your palette rejected and it is not featured here, please send your work to us and/or tag us on Twitter so that we can find it and host it here.

If our site's database detects a palette duplicate (that is, two or more palette entries with the exact same color values), we will keep the oldest entry and delete the newest entries. Deleted palette spots will be marked with the string §§§§§ to facilitate search and be updated with new palette data as soon as possible.

The palettes we add are subject to the following guidelines:

• The palette file will be accompanied by its name and creator in this exact layout: [name] by [creator];

• If either name or creator of the palette is unknown, it will be replaced by [unknown];

• Palettes from the same creator that share the name will be labeled as [name][number] by [creator];

• If the palette name and/or creator name is deemed to be inappropriate, we will replace it with [censored];

• If the palette name and/or creator name is a hyperlink, we will remove the "dot com" part;

• The palettes can be easily retrievable by site search, Applets and link in the name;

• The palettes can be freely used by anyone;

• The palette creator can have their palette removed from the site upon request;

• We reserve full rights to deny inclusion of any palettes, especially those that have hateful and abrasive elements, such as offensive names or using the palette template to depict hateful images.

Manual Palette Submission

We normally only add palettes that were formally rejected or rated poorly by Lospec users, but if you want to submit your palette directly to us, use the Submit Content form. Some rules apply:

• Between 2 and 256 colors;

• Only 3 direct submissions per user per month.

Gallery Guidelines

Our site's gallery includes art made by several artists. Most of them are pixel art, but any kind of digital art is allowed, as long as it visibly and clearly uses one of the palettes hosted in this site. The art will be labeled with a link to the artist's preferred social media account, or other ways that credits the creator clearly.

We will always ask for the artist's consent before adding their artwork into our gallery. For this site's purposes, if the artist tagged their art with our official hashtags or used the Submit Content form, this will count as proper consent, and their artwork will be added in a future update.

If consent is not clear, then we will ask the artist directly, and respect their choice if they would rather have their artwork not be added to this site's gallery, or have it removed at a later date if they so desire.

By allowing your art to be added to this gallery, it means:

• You used a palette from Rejected Palettes, either totally, partly or with minor edits that still make the palette usage obvious;

• You allow Rejected Palettes to display your art to be seen by anyone browsing this site;

• Your art will be properly credited and linked to your social media page;

• You allow your art to be periodically featured on our official social medias, such as Twitter (@RejectedPalette), Bluesky (@rejectedpalettes.bsky.social) and others, always properly credited and linked to your preferred social media link;

• We will apply a Rejected Palettes watermark on your art whenever we post it in our official social media posts, so as to protect it from data scrapers on those sites;

• You retain full ownership of the art. We do not claim ownership, be it full or partial, to any of the art pieces created by collaborators;

• You have free rights to have submissions under your name updated and/or removed upon request;

• We will not use any of the art pieces made by the collaborators in a commercial way, including but not limited to merchandise, commissions or NFTs;

• You are sure your art is not R18. This site is meant for all ages, so subjects such as excessive nudity, explicit violence etc. should be avoided. We retain full rights to deny any pieces we feel inappropriate;

• You are aware that this is a gallery and not a repository nor a database. This site is supposed to be a celebration of creativity first and foremost, therefore the submissions must be artistically sound and varied. We retain full rights to deny pieces we feel inconsequential or too derivative to another already in the gallery;

• You are sure the art under your name is yours and that it was not edited or stolen from someone else. If art theft is discovered, all art under the submitter's name will be deleted from this site's galleries and they will be unable to submit additional pieces;

• You are sure the art under your name was crafted by your efforts and that it was not generated via AI or Machine Learning algorithms. The point of this gallery is to celebrate the artists' own ingenuity and craftsmanship, as well as respecting others' efforts. If AI-generated art is detected, all art under the submitter's name will be deleted from this site's galleries and they will be unable to submit additional pieces in the future.

Vitrine Gallery Guidelines

All guidelines mentioned above apply to Vitrine Gallery.

In addition, and specifically for Vitrine Gallery, the artist must provide us a short paragraph about the creative process employed for the piece if they want it to be featured in our site. Art pieces without text will not be accepted under any circumstance.

More than a simple repository of art, we want people to feel like they are in a museum, appreciating both the art and the thought process behind it. In the age of rampant AI-generated pictures, the one key difference us artists have against them is the insights on the challenges and solutions we applied during the creation, and such things must be praised and encouraged.

If you believe you found any instance of those guidelines being broken, please contact @RejectedPalette and/or @rejectedpalettes.bsky.social about the offending matter. We will take measures to solve the issues as soon as possible.