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Color palette
File type: Graphics file
A pal file extension is related to the color palette files used by various applications and computer games.
Found 6 different file type records with the same pal filename suffix.
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: July 14, 2025
The pal file extension is generally used for files that contain saved color palettes. In computer graphics, a palette is usually a finite set of colors for the management of digital images.
The pal file in most cases is a simple text file that contains RGB data about individual colors.
These pal files are usually used by graphic or photo editors, as well some older games and other programs.
Use compatible app to work with color palette files.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pal files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 2, 2011
File extension is used by Adobe PageMaker. Library palette.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pal files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Backup file
Date updated: November 14, 2018
The pal file extension is associated with Personal Ancestral File, a genealogy management system, developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
These files are backups of the main genealogy PAF format.
Use compatible tools to work with *.pal files.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software applications that can open pal files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create pal files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that backup pal files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that recover pal files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pal files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: August 15, 2013
The PAL file extension was also used for process model files in Pallas Athena applications. Probably old and no longer used.
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: October 19, 2018
The pal file extension is also used in Rise of Nations, a real-time strategic computer game for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Microsoft Studios.
These pal files are campaign media data files.
You cannot open this file type manually, it is accessed by the game automatically.
These games files cannot be converted to anything else. However, sometimes modding.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving pal files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Emulator file
Date updated: September 23, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The pal file extension is also related to one of the emulator file types used by ZX Spectrum and perhaps other emulators. Contains palette, usually used to translate the former graphics data.
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