Another character palette display test.
Jan. 21st, 2026 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malymin| Source: | Character Page for Duck (Wayback) | ||
| Highlight | Main | Shadow | |
| Hair | #f6efd5 | #ee846b | #b45942 |
| Skin | #ffdbae | #d69d7b | |
| Sweater | #fff7dc | #d4c9ad | |
| Shorts | #efde4b | #d6a22b | |
| Sock Stripe | #f6f6f7 | #cccccc | |
| Sock Stripe | #f17469 | #a84033 | |
| Shoe Tongue | #f7ca59 | #cc9933 | |
| Shoes | #d74a34 | #af3821 | |
| Minor Accents (Less Reliable) | |||
| Eyes | #c0dfef | ??? | #4471a2 |
| Pendant: | #cf0843 | ||
Unfortunately, the fact that Princess Tutu released in 2002 means all its contemporaneous web-published official art is either still JPEG or GIF format, with the low image and color quality those formats imply compared to PNG or SVG. Duck's eyes, in particular, seem to be so highly anti-aliased in the reference image that no pixels in them reliably match their color in the actual show.
Plenty of high quality print artwork was made, but scanned images of printings of digitally colored artwork (as Princess Tutu is digipaint) end up with noise and accuracy lose compared to the original digitally-colored art that they were presumably derived from. A page being slightly yellowed, or the scanner distorting colors, result in accuracy loss.
Modern official art posted on twitter by the character designer and original concept creator, Ikuto Itoh, uses a very different, washed out palette from the original show. (Though the worst victims of this art are the tan-skinned characters like Pique and Fakir, who end up almost as pale as Mytho...) Therefore, despite the higher raw image quality, it's absolutely useless as material to sample to get a sense for the original, canonical in-show palettes.
At least my situation with Tutu isn't as severe as with 1998!Yu-Gi-Oh!, popularly known as "Season Zero." That show's official website used jpegs for character art, and the character art is much smaller compared to Tutu on top of that. and its "redacted from existence" status in the franchise means no official art of its versions of the characters (much less art of its unique characters who don't appear in the manga or DM) will ever exist. My ass is never gonna get high definition perfect Miho Nosaka colors...
Collection of official art scavenged from the official website under the cut. If you weren't there for the y2k internet: yep, every single one of this is a non-animated GIF because we didn't have PNG. GIF was the only format with true transparency, though it was also used for fake-transparency with anti-aliasing and images that fit into the background and each other, like this. alternative was JPEG, and well... anti-aliased "fake transparency" jpegs looked like this.
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Date: 2026-01-22 05:14 am (UTC)such good ducks...
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Date: 2026-01-22 03:59 pm (UTC)It's really nice that she has a lot of images...
Do you know Ive repeatedly seen people insist on categorizing her as a "pink haired" character, alongside the likes of Utena and Mew Ichigo? I don't get it. Her hair's got a coral or peach tone, to be sure, but it firmly reads as a shade of ginger more than anything.