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Life & fun · February 8, 2013

Swatchy palette editor for indie game devs

Welcome to Swatchy, the fastest easiest and coolest palette editor on the web designed for spritres with ideas requested by spriters. Swatchy implements the latest standards in design and as such its robust internal palette engine is more than capable to handle all of your spriting needs. Easily edi

Swatchy palette editor for indie game devs launched on February 8, 2013 with 10 votes, #108 of 551 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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Swatchy is a palette editor designed for indie game developers and spriters to create and modify color palettes for sprite artwork. The tool features a robust internal engine built to modern design standards and offers quick editing through a minimal color swatch interface. It runs on Windows 7 or higher with .NET 4.5 and requires a dual-core processor and external GPU adapter.

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Welcome to Swatchy, the fastest easiest and coolest palette editor on the web designed for spritres with ideas requested by spriters. Swatchy implements the latest standards in design and as such its robust internal palette engine is more than capable to handle all of your spriting needs. Easily edit sprite palettes and save them for quick …

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