Hammer pixels into sprites.
A fast, fully client-side retro pixel-art editor for the browser. Draw in pixels, work in layers and animation frames, and export to PNG, SVG, GIF, and spritesheet — under a bespoke Arcade-CRT aesthetic. No accounts, no server, works offline.
- Tools — pencil, eraser, fill, line, rectangle, ellipse, eyedropper, select, move, pan; adjustable brush size, X/Y mirror, pixel-perfect strokes, dithering.
- Layers — opacity, reorder, lock, merge-down, flatten, over a live composite.
- Animation — frame timeline with per-frame duration, FPS, onion-skin, and playback.
- Color & palettes — HSV picker, fg/bg swap, classic hardware palettes (NES,
Game Boy, PICO-8…),
.hex/.gplimport, and an indexed palette-lock mode. - Undo / redo — memory-efficient dirty-rectangle history.
- Export & save — PNG (integer scale), SVG, animated GIF, spritesheet + JSON atlas,
and a lossless
.forgeproject file; in-browser gallery. - Command palette (
Ctrl/⌘+K), full keyboard shortcuts, and a Focus/fullscreen mode. - PWA — installable and works offline after first load.
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5173/pixel-forge/Build a production bundle:
npm run build
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