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Pixel Art Size Calculator

The right sprite, tile and canvas sizes

Try it here for free. Downloading what you make comes with the tool: $9.99, paid once, yours for good.

Game resolution (the art's own pixels)

Tile size

On screen
20 x 11.25
tiles of 16 px, the last one cut
On 1080p
6x
fills it, no black bars
Character
16 x 16-24
px, one tile wide, the head can stand over the tile above
320 x 180 at 6x on 1920 x 1080. Art: our Top-Down Tileset and Top-Down Characters, drawn at your tile size.
A part at its real size on 1080p: one art pixel is 6 x 6 screen pixels, and the 16 px character is 96 px tall (9% of the screen's height).
ScreenScaleGameBlack bars
720p4x1280 x 720none
1080p6x1920 x 1080none
1440p8x2560 x 1440none
4K12x3840 x 2160none
Laptop 1366 x 7684x1280 x 72043 px each side, 24 px top and bottom
Steam Deck4x1280 x 72040 px top and bottom

No black bars on 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 4K at once: , , , . Every other size leaves a bar on at least one of them.

Godot 4 settings for this size
; Gridwright Pixel Art Size Calculator: a 320 x 180 game in a 1280 x 720 window (4x).
; Paste at the end of project.godot (Godot 4.2 or later), or set the same in Project > Project Settings.

[display]

window/size/viewport_width=320
window/size/viewport_height=180
window/size/window_width_override=1280
window/size/window_height_override=720
window/stretch/mode="viewport"
window/stretch/aspect="keep"
window/stretch/scale_mode="integer"

[rendering]

textures/canvas_textures/default_texture_filter=0
2d/snap/snap_2d_transforms_to_pixel=true
2d/snap/snap_2d_vertices_to_pixel=true

Draw at 1x and let the engine scale by whole numbers. Art saved at the wrong size? The Pixel Art Upscaler scales it without blur. A size you miss? Tell us in our Discord.

The Pixel Art Size Calculator answers the question every new pixel art game starts with: what size should my sprites, tiles and canvas be? Pick a game resolution such as 320 x 180 or 640 x 360 and a tile size from 8 to 48 pixels, and it shows how many tiles fit on screen, how tall a character should be, and how big one art pixel is on a 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K screen.

It scales by whole numbers only, which is how pixel art stays crisp, so it also shows the black bars each screen leaves and which resolutions fill all four common screens with none. Starting from a screen instead? Say how many tiles across you want to see, and it lists the sizes that divide the screen exactly.

A live preview draws a meadow from our own 16 x 16 tiles at your sizes, on the whole screen and at real size. The settings come out as lines for Godot's project.godot and values for Unity's Pixel Perfect Camera. Try it on the page with no account.

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A first session

  1. 1Pick a game resolution, or start from a screen and the number of tiles you want to see.
  2. 2Pick a tile size and whether the game is top-down or side view.
  3. 3Check the tiles on screen, the scale and black bars, and the preview.
  4. 4Download the sizes, or copy the Godot settings into project.godot.
It exports
  • Size sheet (.txt)
  • Godot 4 project.godot lines
  • Unity Pixels Per Unit and Pixel Perfect Camera values
Try it, then buy it
Try it free on this page. Downloading what you make comes with the tool, bought once.
Can I use what I make in a commercial game?
Yes. What you make with the tools is yours to use in your games, commercial ones too, under the Gridwright licence.

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