Marathon 2 & Infinity’s 8-bit Color Palettes

Strictly speaking, as far as I’m aware, none of Bungie’s Marathon trilogy had predefined 256-color palettes; they simply built the palette ad-hoc from what was in their shapes files, with the small problem that if you tried to use more than 256 colors, they’d crash. This is no longer necessary with Aleph One, but if you care about 8-bit software mode at all, it’s still worth adhering to the predefined palettes.

ShapeFusion (the modern replacement for Bungie’s shapes editor, Anvil) doesn’t actually check whether you’re using colors adhering to the shapes’ standard color palette. As a result, if you use it to generate a color ramp, the colors it creates may or may not actually adhere to your shapes file’s pre-existing colors. If you generate a ramp of the same length from the same exact colors every time, its contents will be consistent with each other every time, but they may not adhere to Bungie’s colors.

I’ve thus compiled Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity’s palettes, in both web color and RGB formats. A few notes:

As always, please contact me if you notice any errors or omissions; see my introductory and advanced mapmaking pages and annotated Anvil help balloons for more context.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Table of Contents
  3. The Color Palette
    1. ⬤ #FFFFFF
    2. ⬤ #FEF495 (black body ramp)
    3. ⬤ #E1DDC3
    4. ⬤ #FFFF00
    5. ⬤ #FBAF8B
    6. ⬤ #00FF00
    7. ⬤ #39E48B
    8. ⬤ #99C300
    9. ⬤ #A4ADEB
    10. ⬤ #CFA093
    11. ⬤ #00B0C9
    12. ⬤ #F65800
    13. ⬤ #FF0000
    14. ⬤ #618961
    15. ⬤ #AB4A12
    16. ⬤ #245FA3
    17. ⬤ #B0005E
    18. ⬤ #0C00FF
    19. ⬤ #0000FF (dummy transparency colors)

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The Color Palette

#WebRGB
0#FFFFFF255255255
1#F0F0F0240240240
2#E1E1E1225225225
3#D2D2D2210210210
4#C3C3C3195195195
5#B4B4B4180180180
6#A5A5A5165165165
7#969696150150150
8#878787135135135
9#787878120120120
10#696969105105105
11#5A5A5A 90 90 90
12#4B4B4B 75 75 75
13#3C3C3C 60 60 60
14#2D2D2D 45 45 45
15#1E1E1E 30 30 30
16#0F0F0F 15 15 15
17#000000 0 0 0
18#FEF495254244149
19#FEF06F254240111
20#FEEA3A254234 58
21#FEDD15254221 21
22#FECA12254202 18
23#FEB80E254184 14
24#FEA60B254166 11
25#FE9408254148 8
26#FE7B03254123 3
27#FE6203254 98 3
28#FE4F01254 79 1
29#FE3D01254 61 1
30#FE2A01254 42 1
31#FE1801254 24 1
32#FE0601254 6 1
33#E40101228 1 1
34#BE0101190 1 1
35#990101153 1 1
36#740101116 1 1
37#4F0101 79 1 1
38#270101 39 1 1
39#E1DDC3225221195
40#DAD5B4218213180
41#D2CCA5210204165
42#CBC496203196150
43#B7B087183176135
44#A29D78162157120
45#8E8969142137105
46#7A765A122118 90
47#66624B102 98 75
48#514E3C 81 78 60
49#3D3B2D 61 59 45
50#29271E 41 39 30
51#14140F 20 20 15
52#FFFF00255255 0
53#ECEB00236235 0
54#D8D800216216 0
55#C5C400197196 0
56#B0B100176177 0
57#9D9D00157157 0
58#898900137137 0
59#767500118117 0
60#626200 98 98 0
61#4F4F00 79 79 0
62#3B3B00 59 59 0
63#282700 40 39 0
64#131300 19 19 0
65#FBAF8B251175139
66#F1A37F241163127
67#E69773230151115
68#DC8B67220139103
69#D27F5B210127 91
70#C8734F200115 79
71#BD6743189103 67
72#B35B37179 91 55
73#954C2E149 76 46
74#773D25119 61 37
75#5A2E1C 90 46 28
76#3C1E12 60 30 18
77#1E0F09 30 15 9
78#00FF00 0255 0
79#00EB00 0235 0
80#00D800 0216 0
81#00C400 0196 0
82#00B100 0177 0
83#009D00 0157 0
84#008900 0137 0
85#007600 0118 0
86#006200 0 98 0
87#004E00 0 78 0
88#003B00 0 59 0
89#002700 0 39 0
90#001400 0 20 0
91#39E48B 57228139
92#31CF7D 49207125
93#2ABA6F 42186111
94#22A661 34166 97
95#1A9153 26145 83
96#137C45 19124 69
97#0B6737 11103 55
98#0A582F 10 88 47
99#084927 8 73 39
100#063B1F 6 59 31
101#052C18 5 44 24
102#031D10 3 29 16
103#020F08 2 15 8
104#99C300153195 0
105#8DB400141180 0
106#82A500130165 0
107#759600117150 0
108#6A8700106135 0
109#5E7800 94120 0
110#526900 82105 0
111#465A00 70 90 0
112#3B4B00 59 75 0
113#2F3C00 47 60 0
114#242D00 36 45 0
115#181E00 24 30 0
116#0C0F00 12 15 0
117#A4ADEB164173235
118#979FD9151159217
119#8B93C6139147198
120#7F85B5127133181
121#7177A3113119163
122#656A91101106145
123#585D7E 88 93126
124#4C506C 76 80108
125#3F425B 63 66 91
126#323549 50 53 73
127#252836 37 40 54
128#191B24 25 27 36
129#0C0E12 12 14 18
130#CFA093207160147
131#BF9083191144131
132#B37F77179127119
133#A36F67163111103
134#92635B146 99 91
135#815450129 84 80
136#714546113 69 70
137#65393A101 57 58
138#542E2E 84 46 46
139#432322 67 35 34
140#321C1F 50 28 31
141#211113 33 17 19
142#14090B 20 9 11
143#00B0C9 0176201
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145#0095AA 0149170
146#00879B 0135155
147#007A8B 0122139
148#006C7C 0108124
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151#00444D 0 68 77
152#00363E 0 54 62
153#00292E 0 41 46
154#001B1F 0 27 31
155#001415 0 20 21
156#F65800246 88 0
157#E35100227 81 0
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159#BD4300189 67 0
160#AA3D00170 61 0
161#973600151 54 0
162#843000132 48 0
163#722900114 41 0
164#5F2200 95 34 0
165#4C1B00 76 27 0
166#391500 57 21 0
167#260E00 38 14 0
168#130700 19 7 0
169#FF0000255 0 0
170#EB0000235 0 0
171#D80000216 0 0
172#C40000196 0 0
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175#890000137 0 0
176#760000118 0 0
177#620000 98 0 0
178#4E0000 78 0 0
179#3B0000 59 0 0
180#270000 39 0 0
181#140000 20 0 0
182#618961 97137 97
183#587E58 88126 88
184#4E724E 78114 78
185#456745 69103 69
186#3B5B3B 59 91 59
187#345134 52 81 52
188#2E472E 46 71 46
189#273D27 39 61 39
190#213321 33 51 33
191#1A281A 26 40 26
192#141E14 20 30 20
193#0D140D 13 20 13
194#070A07 7 10 7
195#AB4A12171 74 18
196#9D4510157 69 16
197#90400F144 64 15
198#83390D131 57 13
199#76340D118 52 13
200#682E0B104 46 11
201#5B280A 91 40 10
202#4E2208 78 34 8
203#421C06 66 28 6
204#351705 53 23 5
205#271004 39 16 4
206#1B0C03 27 12 3
207#0D0401 13 4 1
208#245FA3 36 95163
209#215896 33 88150
210#1E518A 30 81138
211#1B497D 27 73125
212#194271 25 66113
213#163B65 22 59101
214#133358 19 51 88
215#112C4B 17 44 75
216#0E253F 14 37 63
217#0B1D32 11 29 50
218#081625 8 22 37
219#050E19 5 14 25
220#02070C 2 7 12
221#B0005E176 0 94
222#A20057162 0 87
223#94004F148 0 79
224#870048135 0 72
225#7A0041122 0 65
226#6C003A108 0 58
227#5F0033 95 0 51
228#52002C 82 0 44
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230#36001D 54 0 29
231#290016 41 0 22
232#1B000E 27 0 14
233#0D0008 13 0 8
234#0C00FF 12 0255
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236#0A00D8 10 0216
237#0900C4 9 0196
238#0800B1 8 0177
239#07009D 7 0157
240#060089 6 0137
241#060076 6 0118
242#050062 5 0 98
243#04004E 4 0 78
244#03003B 3 0 59
245#020027 2 0 39
246#010014 1 0 20
247#0000FF 0 0255
248#FF00FF255 0255
249#00FFFF 0255255

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