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High Contrast Resource Pack

High Contrast is an experimental attempt to overhaul the original textures of Terraria using a 5.5-bit colour palette. The goal is to style all items differently enough to prevent confusion in the best way possible with the extended, yet small palette that derives from a system setting of the same name. Alongside the greater inspiration behind this project, "High Contrast" settings on the Windows OS, other factors include dark themes and minimalism.

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Originally, this texture pack was to be created with a much smaller palette, consisting of 6 colors and 4 shades, which has since been expanded. The original 10 colors and shades were:

• Red
  
• Yellow
  
• Green
  
• Cyan
  
• Blue
  
• Magenta
  
• White*
  
• Gray*
  
• Dark Gray*
  
• Black*

...where '*' denotes a shade.

The expanded color palette can be described as a 5.5-bit color palette (or 6-bit with 20 missing colors/shades), which derives from the 10 listed above. The list has now been expanded to include:

1. 6 new color mixtures created as hybrids between the original colors listed above.
   
2. 24 more colors by giving the combined original and expanded sets of 12 colors a lighter and darker variant respectively,
   
3. 4 new shades. 3 created as hybrids between the existing shades; This adds a Light Gray, a Dim Gray, and Darker Gray. Finally, an even darker gray just between "Darker Gray" and Black.

When all is said and done, this texture pack has a mixture of 44 colors and shades within the palette, and has such been coined, a 5.5-bit palette.


These are the guidelines I have set for myself when I edit Terraria's sprite sheets using the aforementioned palette:

• 1| All high contrast textures must not contain any other color or shade than what is provided in the palette described above.
  
• 2| Colors and shades are allowed to have transparency, however, no translucent color or shade is allowed to overlap with another color or shade.
  
• An exception to second guideline: Wall textures and other background textures are allowed to have a layer of translucent black over-top to control luminance and maintain playability.

This texture pack has no specific full release date. Changes will be made at a steady rate of 25 items (excluding related tiles/walls/etc.) per update. Information on each version update can be found in the "Change Notes" of this workshop item.



Explore more about this texture pack by visiting the Terraria Community Forums post using the link below:
High Contrast Texture Pack - Terraria Forums[forums.terraria.org]

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