pokemon-color-search/pngs.md

PNG Source

Currently using Pokemon Showdown's sprites, sourced from their dex directory. These were then pruned by hand, and some other sprites (Galar forms) were added from their gen5 directory.

Specifically, the following were removed:

• Mega evolutions
• Unown forms, excluding "default" of A
• Duplicated Forms (i.e., plain sprite removed but equivalent form sprite left)
  • Burmy (plant)
  • Wormadam (plant)
  • Basculin (red stripe)
  • Vivillon (meadow)
  • Sawsbuck (spring)
  • Deerling (spring)
  • Thundurus (incarnate)
  • Tornadus (incarnate)
  • Landorus (incarnate)
  • Flabebe (red)
  • Floette (red)
  • Florges (red)
  • Furfrou (natural)
  • Shaymin (land)
  • Shellos (west)
  • Gastrodon (west)
  • Keldeo (ordinary)
  • Meloetta (aria)
  • Hoopa (confined)
  • Giratina (altered)
• Duplicated Grovyle that appeared a second time as english.png?
• Forms inaccessible at start of battle
  • Minior core forms (battle will start with Minior in meteor form)
  • Wishiwashi solo form (battle will start with Wishiwashi in school form)
  • Mimikyu busted form (battle will start with Mimikyu in normal form)
  • Castform weather forms (battle will start with no weather)
  • Cherrim sunshine and duplicated Cherrim overcast (battle will start with no weather)
  • Aegislash blade and duplicated Aegislash shield (battle will start with Aegislash in shield mode)
  • Darmanitan zen and duplicated Darmanitan standard (battle will start with Darmanitan in normal form)
  • Xerneas neutral and duplicated Xerneas active (battle will start with Xerneas in active mode)
• Forms that do not significantly alter the color of the pokemon
  • Arceus forms
  • Silvally forms
  • Genesect forms
  • Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist alternate sizes
  • Ash Greninja
  • Additional Pikachu costumes
  • "Starter" Eevee and Pikachu
• All "Create-A-Pokemon" entries
• Totem pokemon sprites
• Pokestars

And the following were obtained from the gen5 directory

• Galar forms of:
  • Articuno
  • Corsola
  • Darmanitan (no Galar Zen for reasons above)
  • Darumaka
  • Farfetch'd
  • Linoone
  • Meowth
  • Moltres
  • Ponyta
  • Rapidash
  • Slowbrow
  • Slowking
  • Slowpoke
  • Stunfisk
  • Weezing
  • Yamask
  • Zapdos
  • Zigzagoon
• alcremie
• arctovish
• arctozolt
• calyrex
• clobbopus
• copperajah
• cufant
• cursola
• dracovish
• dracozolt
• dragapult
• drakloak
• dreepy
• duraludon
• eiscue
• eternatus
• falinks
• frosmoth
• glastrier
• grapploct
• grimmsnarl
• hatenna
• hatterene
• hattrem
• impidimp
• indeedee
• kubfu
• milcery
• morgrem
• morpeko
• mrrime
• obstagoon
• perrserker
• pincurchin
• polteageist
• regidrago
• regieleki
• runerigus
• sinistea
• sirfetchd
• snom
• spectrier
• stonjourner
• urshifu
• zacian
• zamazenta
• zarude

And then a few png files were renamed to align to the names on pokemondb so sprites can be fetched in the web version (other mismatches are handled programmatically):

• All 4 Tapus
• Ho-oh
• Mime Jr., Mr. Mime (regular and Galar), Mr. Rime
• Jangmo-o, Hakamo-o, Kommo-o
• Meowstic (F)
• Type: Null
• Toxtricity (Low Key)
• Porygon-Z
• Oricorio (Pom Pom)
• Nidoran (M and F)
• Necrozma (Dawn Wings and Dusk Mane)

Alternative/Legacy Source

Another option is pokemondb's sprite archive. Download the entire page (i.e., Ctrl-S in most browsers), then take the folder of PNGs it downloads and place them in the pngs directory in this repository. Then run ingest.py to generate database.csv