Pixelight

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Pixel art and sprites, in your browser

Draw with crisp pixel-perfect tools, build characters from layers, animate them frame by frame with onion skin, and export GIFs and sprite sheets for your game. Your work never leaves your device.

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Works in a recent Chrome, Edge or Safari, with a mouse, a pen or a finger.

Pixelight fox.pixelight16 × 16 · 4 frames Export
walk · 4 frames · 100 ms

Every pixel exactly where you put it

Characters, tiles, icons, game sprites: the tools pixel artists reach for, without installing anything.

Pixel-perfect lines

Freehand strokes without doubled corners, clean 2:1 lines, symmetric circles at every size.

Layers and blend modes

Groups, opacity, multiply, screen, overlay and the rest, reference layers for sketches.

Animation

A timeline of frames with durations, onion skin, tags for each move, linked cels, a live preview.

Palettes and dithering

Indexed colour, shading along a ramp, ordered dithering patterns and gradients without new colours.

Ready for your game

Sprite sheets with a JSON of frames, durations and tags; scaled PNGs; animated GIF and PNG.

Private, and never lost

No upload, no account. Every change is kept in your browser, so a closed tab loses nothing.

Files

.pixelightPNGAnimated GIFAnimated PNGSprite sheet + JSONJPEG and WebP (open).gpl .hex .pal palettes

How it works

  1. Start a sprite

    Pick a size like 32 × 32, or open a PNG or GIF you already have.

  2. Draw and animate

    Paint on layers, add frames, turn on onion skin and play it back.

  3. Export

    A GIF to share, PNGs at any scale, or a sprite sheet and JSON for your game.

Palettes to start from

Original palettes made for Pixelight, free to use anywhere.

Pixelight 32The default: a neutral ramp, warm and cool ramps with gentle hue shifts.Pixelight 16Sixteen colours for small sprites.Ember 12Fire, lava and dusk: deep reds to pale gold.Grove 12Forests and fields: mossy greens, bark and sky.Tide 12Water and night: navy to foam.Four greensFour shades for a classic handheld look.Grey 8Eight even steps of grey.One bitBlack and white.

Guides

Short walk-throughs for pixel art and sprite work.

Animate a spriteFrames, durations, onion skin and tags for walk cycles and effects.Dithering in pixel artPatterns that mix two colours without adding a third.Export a sprite sheet for your gameOne image with every frame, and a JSON your engine reads.Make a pixel art GIFAn animated GIF or PNG to share, scaled up so it stays sharp.Palettes and indexed colourWork with a fixed set of colours, swap them, and save palettes.Draw pixel art onlineStart a sprite, draw with crisp tools and save it, all in the browser.Seamless tilesDraw tiles that repeat without visible edges.

Questions

Is Pixelight free?

Yes. Pixelight is free to use, with no account and no sign-up.

Are my drawings uploaded?

No. Pixelight runs entirely in your browser and saves to your device. Nothing is sent to a server.

Can I use it for game sprites?

Yes. Export a sprite sheet with a JSON file listing every frame, its duration and your tags, in the layout most game engines read.

Does it work with a pen or on a tablet?

Yes. Pixelight reads pen pressure and the pen's eraser, and touch gestures pan and zoom.

Ready to draw?

Open Pixelight and press ? there for every keyboard shortcut.

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