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Life & fun · August 5, 2014

Make 8-Bit Art!

An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.

Make 8-Bit Art! launched on August 5, 2014 with 107 votes, #261 of 2,208 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

make8bitart.com is a fun free in-browser pixel art tool for you!

this is a free web-based pixel art drawing tool by jenn schiffer ! if you make something cool, i wanna see it – find me on bluesky @jennschiffer.com or email [email protected] ! the gist of it is that pxon is pixel art represented in JSON. the current session of your drawing should be represented in the textarea below - paste into a .json file or app that supports pxon for good fun! note: pxon is a draft proposal and a fake idea by me (jenn, creator of make8bitart.com) that's being updated sporadically and sometimes doesn't work. please let me know if it'sfrom make8bitart.com

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