A limited palette is traditional, and pixel art is very traditionalist, as both an art form and a community of artists. That’s not to say there’s no innovation—

A limited palette is traditional, and pixel art is very traditionalist, as both an art form and a community of artists. That’s not to say there’s no innovation—plenty of—but it’s always with the same body of techniques: palette minimisation, antialiasing, dithering, hardware restrictions, and a large dose of colour theory.