Pixel Art Gradient Generator

Gradients Studio's pixel art gradient generator shades a gradient the way pixel artists do: solid cells in a fixed palette, with the fade between colors dithered into a speckle. Pick a palette and a cell size; the first download needs no account.

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First download free, no account · 4K on Pro, from $9 · No subscription

Palettes for pixel art

Each card is the real render at these settings, and opens in the studio with them.

Effects: Pixel
Cell size: 24px
Density: 140%
Grain: 10%

The smooth originals are free 4K wallpapers: Ember, Lavender Haze, Deep Sea, Solar, Silk Rose, Sunset, Canopy and Abyss.

What makes it pixel art

Pixel art keeps a small palette and never blends. Every cell is one of its colors, and where two colors meet, artists scatter cells of each to suggest the tone in between. The pixel finish does the same with your background and palette colors, matching each cell to its nearest color in OKLab so the steps look even to the eye.

A speckle, not a grid

Many dither tools repeat a small pattern that reads as a mesh. This finish decides each cell against a blue-noise threshold, so transitions break into an even, organic speckle with no visible tile, and every cell lands in the same place in the preview and the download.

The settings on this page

Effects Pixel, cell size 24 px, Density 140% (the default, faithful to the gradient's tones) and Grain 10%, so the flat cells keep a little texture. A 4K frame is 160 cells across; the free HD download is the same picture at half the size.

How to make one

Open the studio from this page, or choose Pixel under Effects on any gradient. Lower Density toward 60% for harder steps between colors, or raise it toward 200% for a wider speckle. Shuffle the seed until the shapes sit away from your headline, then export.

Sized for where it goes

Exact sizes and safe zones for the places a background ends up, each with examples at that shape.

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Questions

How many colors does a pixel art gradient use?

Exactly the ones you give it: the background plus the palette colors. No in-between colors are made, so the image stays true to the palette apart from the grain drawn on top. Set Grain to 0 for perfectly flat cells.

Can I use my own palette?

Yes. Type the hex codes into the background and color slots; the finish only ever draws those colors. A palette from a pixel art palette library works as long as you enter its colors by hand.

What does Density do here?

It shapes the dithered band where two colors meet. Low values give hard, posterized steps with a thin seam of speckle; 140% follows the gradient's real tones; 200% spreads the speckle wide across the fade.

Is the pixel art gradient generator free?

Your first download is free with no account: an HD JPG (1920 × 1080 for 16:9) with the pixel finish. 4K with the finish is part of Pro, $39 for 12 months with no subscription, or a $9 Week Pass.

Make one now

The studio opens set to this look. Shuffle until something feels right, then export.

Make a pixel art gradient