40 palettes

Weirdcore Color Palette

One weirdcore palette at a time: five colors, each named for its part of an empty place.

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Door on a hill: white on pale bluePale blue sky, white door, faded green hill, cream path, gray door shadow.#C8DFEF · #F6F8F9 · #68B168 · #F4EEDD · #788087

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Washed-out daylight 10

Blank sign: white on pale azure White empty board, pale azure sky, concrete gray posts, pale green verge, tan road.
Bus stop bench: faded teal on white White sky, pale gray shelter glass, faded teal bench, sand pavement, faded red sign.
Chalk squares: dusty pink on pale gray Pale gray pavement, dusty pink hopscotch squares, pale yellow chalk numbers, faded blue shadow, tan curb.
Cul-de-sac: cream and dusty pink White sky, cream house fronts, dusty pink garage doors, faded green hedges, concrete gray road.
Door on a hill: white on pale blue Pale blue sky, white door, faded green hill, cream path, gray door shadow.
Drained pool: pale aqua and white White sky, pale aqua pool walls, pale azure lane lines, cream deck, faded blue ladder shadow.
Empty swings: faded red on pale blue White noon glare, pale blue sky, faded red swing seats, faded yellow frame, concrete gray ground.
Parking lot: faded yellow on pale gray White glare, pale gray tarmac, faded yellow bay lines, pale blue sky, gray lamp posts.
Sandbox: sand and pale yellow Pale yellow sunlight, sand sandbox, faded blue bucket, faded red spade, pale green lawn.
School field: pale green and pale blue Pale blue sky, pale green grass, white goal posts, faded orange cones, sand worn patch.

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Over-bright primaries 10

Arcade carpet: hot pink on black Black carpet, hot pink squiggles, cyan triangles, lime dots, orange zigzags.
Ball pool: red and blue White pool wall, red front balls, blue balls behind, yellow top layer, green scattered balls.
Caption box: red on black Black box, red lettering, yellow arrow, azure sky, white overexposed ground.
Clip-art sun: yellow on cyan Cyan sky, yellow sun, white cloud, lime hill, black outline.
Cone row: orange on black Black tarmac, orange cones, white cone stripes, green verge, azure sky.
Inflatable castle: hot pink and yellow Azure sky, hot pink turrets, yellow walls, violet floor, white clouds.
One balloon: red on white White empty room, red balloon, black string, lime carpet, violet far wall.
Slide tube: yellow and orange Yellow tube, orange steps, blue landing mat, white sky, lime handrail.
Soft-play blocks: magenta and cyan White wall, magenta cube, cyan arch, yellow wedge, violet floor mat.
Stacked chairs: orange and blue White floor, orange top chair, blue middle chair, magenta bottom chair, black legs.

Empty-room pastels 10

After-hours classroom: pale green and cream Pale green walls, cream desks, pale yellow window light, tan floor, deep green chalkboard.
Cloud walls: white on pale blue Pale blue wallpaper, white clouds, pale pink crib, butter yellow night light, midnight blue window.
Hotel corridor: peach and mauve Peach walls, cream doors, butter yellow wall lamps, mauve carpet, maroon far end.
Indoor pool room: pale aqua and navy Pale aqua tiles, white ceiling, pale blue water, cream deck, navy deep end.
Laundry room: lilac and pale aqua Lilac walls, white machines, pale aqua floor, salmon basket, charcoal open drum.
Long hallway: faded teal on pale yellow Pale yellow walls, beige ceiling tiles, faded teal carpet, cream doors, dark brown far end.
Party room: pale pink and lavender Pale pink walls, pale yellow streamers, mint green paper cups, lavender balloons, deep purple doorway.
Pink bathroom: pale pink and mint green Pale pink tiles, white basin, dusty pink bath mat, mint green towel, charcoal drain.
Stair landing: mint green and pale gray Mint green walls, pale gray steps, cream handrail, pale yellow landing light, charcoal flight below.
Waiting chairs: lavender on pale blue Pale blue walls, lavender chairs, cream floor, pale green plant, navy window at night.

Screen glare 10

Empty slide: white on dark brown Dark brown hall, white projector beam, cream dust in the beam, azure blank slide, tan chairs.
Flash photo: white on midnight blue Midnight blue night, white flash on the fence, green lit grass, pale yellow far window, gray path.
Karaoke screen: yellow on blue Deep purple room, blue screen, white words, yellow sung word, magenta bouncing dot.
Loading bar: lime on navy Navy screen, white bar outline, lime bar, pale gray small text, faded blue cursor.
Old monitor: white on black Black room, white screen glare, blue title bar, pale gray window, gray keyboard.
Old web page: white on midnight blue Midnight blue page background, white text, blue links, violet visited links, yellow banner.
Paused tape: white on blue Deep purple room, blue pause screen, white timer digits, lavender tracking lines, cyan screen glow.
Phone at night: white on black Black bedroom, white screen, pale blue glow on the pillow, cyan message dot, gray phone edge.
Photo booth: red on black Black curtain, white flash, pale pink photo strip, red start button, gray stool.
Television snow: pale gray on charcoal Charcoal room, pale gray static, gray static shadow, white screen edge, red standby light.

How this list was compiled: Own work, written for Draw This Next on 2026-10-13: palettes of five colors for a picture in the weirdcore look, in four kinds (washed-out daylight, over-bright primaries, empty-room pastels, screen glare). Every palette, name, color word, hex code and part is our own choice; nothing is sampled from a photograph, an image post, a video or a game, and no game, video, series or character is named. Kept gentle by rule: every scene is an empty or ordinary place or thing, with no eye, mouth or figure, no threat and no caption wording. What weirdcore is, checked on 2026-10-13 against English Wikipedia, Weirdcore, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirdcore (text under CC BY-SA 4.0): an Internet aesthetic that caught on in the early 2020s, built on liminal spaces, poor-quality photos, surreal messages, nostalgia and psychological unease; its pictures often have red text that looks out of place, and black rectangular shapes that often hold such text; its settings are places that may be familiar from childhood, like playgrounds, classrooms and malls, usually empty; its visuals are influenced by the look of images shared on an older internet. The article names no palette: which colors stand for the look, and the four kinds, are our own reading. How a strip is ordered: each color is named for its part; a Washed-out daylight strip starts with a white or pale color, most often its sky or its glare, and a Screen glare strip with its dark; the name carries two of the colors. Our own tests, not a standard: a Washed-out daylight strip starts at an HSL lightness of 85 percent or more and holds nothing darker than 45 percent and nothing over 56 percent saturation; an Over-bright primaries strip holds three or more colors at full strength (a saturation of 90 percent or more at a lightness from 40 to 70 percent) with black or white; an Empty-room pastels strip holds three or more colors at a lightness of 70 percent or more, exactly one dark at 22 percent or less, and nothing at full strength; a Screen glare strip starts at a lightness of 20 percent or less, holds a white or pale color that contrasts with that dark by 10 to 1 or more (the WCAG contrast ratio formula, https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html, used as our own threshold), and one or more colors at full strength; no two colors of a palette are closer than 8 in CIE Lab. Color names are plain English words with no paint maker, pencil brand or color-matching system, and one word is one code everywhere on this list. Checked on 2026-10-13: every code is #RRGGBB, each color word fits the hue and lightness of its code, no palette, name or line repeats, no two palettes share four codes, and no palette is on another palette list of this site or of its sister sites. The hex codes are for a screen; with paint, pencils or markers, take the nearest color. Licence: own work

How it works

Weirdcore is an internet aesthetic of liminal spaces, low-quality photos and nostalgia. Each weirdcore color palette here is five colors for one empty, familiar place: a playground at noon, a pastel hallway, a screen in a dark room.

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Four kinds of weirdcore palette

Washed-out daylight starts with white or a pale color and holds nothing dark, like an overexposed photo. Over-bright primaries puts three or more colors at full strength beside black or white. Empty-room pastels has three or more pastels and exactly one dark: a doorway, a drain, a window at night. Screen glare starts with a dark, then a white glare and a screen color.

Keep it flat

Fill each shape with one flat color and leave the shading out. In Door on a hill the sky is pale blue #C8DFEF, the door white and the hill a faded green #68B168.

Questions and answers

What colors are weirdcore?

There is no fixed set. This list leans on white #F6F8F9 and washed-out pale blue, primaries such as blue #0A2BFF and yellow #FFEF0A at full strength, room pastels such as pale pink #F1D0D8, and screen white on black. The four kinds are our own reading.

What color is weirdcore text?

Often red. Weirdcore pictures often have red text that looks out of place, and black rectangles that hold it. Caption box here is red #FF0008 lettering on a black #0B0B0E box, with a yellow arrow and an azure sky.

What is the difference between weirdcore and kidcore colors?

The kidcore list on this site is crayons, toys and rainbows. This one uses some of the same primaries but sets them in empty places, beside washed-out or dark colors. For the toy-box version, see the kidcore color palette.

Is weirdcore scary?

It is meant to feel a little uneasy: psychological discomfort is part of the look, beside nostalgia. These palettes stay gentle. Every scene is an ordinary place with nobody in it, such as a school field or a laundry room.