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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

palette

The range of distinct colours that a computer system can produce. No computer system will be able to produce every possible shade of colour and the palette is the total set of shades available. Most computers have a palette of sixteen million colours, though some programs will use fewer.

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