Palettes

Palettes are the fixed colour sets that keep Arborwake's art consistent. The places, the rooms, the effects and the interface draw from a small number of shared ramps.

The shared B08 palette#

The approved Threadway B08 render (29 October) defined a palette of 59 opaque colours plus transparency. It is stored in candidates/b08/hearth/source.json. Later work samples from it:

• the room shells are quantised to it;
• every VFX turn group draws only B08 colours, and unit tests check each drawn colour;
• the Studios interior moved onto it, with neon only halfway to its swatch.

The Threadway building studies also carry their own 12-colour swatch row from the user's concept sheet.

District ramps#

Each district has a palette distinct from its neighbours. It still shares the B08 finish.

In the run rooms, colour and value per room type read at game size; dressing alone did not. The user also ruled out hue "reservations": environment palettes need not avoid cell colours.

Character ramps#

• Microglia use a teal family with the shared outline #16353D and a cream glint #E8E6CE.
• Oligodendrocytes use the lighter r007 ramp, accepted on 1 November: shade #6C99AA, body #B3D0D7, light #DDEAED, nucleus #8397AE, myelin mid #859BA3. All new oligodendrocyte, myelin, precursor and Wick art starts from it.
• Astrocytes use a lilac family; their rope is #8a87b8 over #625f8b (2 November).
• Neurons are gold. Their axon lines use the neuron kit, not the microglia rope.

Interface#

The HUD icons copy the sprite rules: a 1 px #16353d outline, flat two to four tone ramps lit from the top left, and a cream glint. Ramps are sampled from the cell families and the Hearth greens. The panels use a parchment and timber frame (see Inventory HUD).

Development#

These are rules, not a playable feature. The B08 palette and the r007 ramp are both in use in art installed in the alpha. The run-room per-type colours came from Gardens v5 (ffb4eda).

See also#

• Art direction
• Environment art
• Tendrils

Sources#

1. 95339ee9d:art/environment/blender-study/candidates/b08/hearth/source.jsoncopy
2. 16c9aab43:art/characters/expansion/sources/r007-oligo-light/README.mdcopy
3. f81684851:art/characters/microglia-motion/README.mdcopy
4. 5ed726064:art/environment/blender-study/studios-interior/renders/pj03/layers/lobby-layers.jsoncopy
5. 7c54d3631:docs/hud/HUD_AND_INVENTORY.mdcopy