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Minecraft Skin Color Palette

Pull the colors out of any skin, or build a palette that works at 8 pixels wide.

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MCrafter Skin Palette Generator

Pull the palette out of any skin, or build one that works at 8 pixels wide

From a skin

Drop / paste a skin PNG to extract its colours

From a base colour

Built palette — click any swatch to copy its hex

Shade ramp (for the base colour: 2 shadows, base, 2 highlights)

Skin & hair pairing

Complementary outfit (contrast against the base)

Analogous (calm, matching)

Triadic (bold, cartoon)

Accent & metals

How it looks on a character

base ramp as shirt, complement as trousers

Rules of thumb for skins: keep 4–6 colours per outfit; shadows should shift towards blue/purple and highlights towards yellow; give skin, hair, top and bottom clearly different values (brightness) so the silhouette reads from far away.

Part ofSkin Editor

About the Skin Color Palette

Good Minecraft skin color palettes are mostly good shade choices. Drop a skin to extract its palette (with percentages), or pick a base colour and get a shade ramp with the pixel-art hue-shift trick, a matching skin-tone and hair pairing, complementary and analogous outfit sets, triadic cartoon sets and metal accents — then see them painted onto a demo character in 3D. Export as PNG strip, hex list, or a .gpl palette for Aseprite and GIMP.

Frequently asked

What is hue-shifting?

Shadows drift towards blue/purple and highlights towards yellow instead of just getting darker or lighter. It makes tiny pixel art read as 3D. The "Hue-shift the shades" toggle does it for you.