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The Palette

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

PIGMENT
The earliest pigments, ochre, charcoal, and chalk, were used by cave painters tens of thousands of years ago, ground from earth and stone found underfoot.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHROMA
Chroma describes a color's intensity or saturation, how pure and vivid it is straight from the tube compared with a version grayed down by mixing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GRADIENT
A smooth gradient from light to dark is one of the foundational exercises taught in color theory, training the eye to judge value, how light or dark a hue truly is.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PRIMARY
In traditional paint mixing, red, yellow, and blue are the three primaries, the colors that can't be made by mixing others together, only by reaching for a fresh tube.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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the palette word search

The Palette: a free online word search

The palette word search puts you inside the painter's world, where hue sits next to shade and the whole vocabulary of color is waiting on the grid.

About The Palette

A palette holds more than paint, it holds possibility. Every color you mix begins as two separate puddles nudged toward each other, the brush coaxing them into something neither one could be alone. A warm cadmium nudging toward a cool cerulean becomes a hundred different greens depending on how far you lean; a touch of white lifts a shadow into a luminous tint. Learning to see the difference between a hue, a tone, and a shade is one of those quiet revelations that changes how you look at the whole world around you.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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