palette

 
Pronunciation: /ˈpalɪt/

noun

  • a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.
  • the range of colours used by a particular artist or in a particular picture: Pollock’s hard, bright palette
  • the range or variety of tonal or instrumental colour in a musical piece: he commands the sort of tonal palette which this music needs
  • (in computer graphics) the range of colours or shapes available to the user.

Origin:

late 18th century: from French, diminutive of pale 'shovel', from Latin pala 'spade'