About
What is Station255?
Station255 is the 8-bit tool arcade — a collection of small, fast, free browser tools for pixel art, retro aesthetics, and 8-bit everything. Each tool is a self-contained page. No account, no upload limits, no watermarks.
The name comes from the value 255 — the maximum value of an 8-bit byte. It literally means 8-bit.
The tools
- Palette Extractor — pull the dominant colors out of any image using median-cut quantization.
- Demake — pixelize a photo into authentic NES, Game Boy, PICO-8, C64, or terminal palette art.
- CRT-ify — apply scanlines, chromatic aberration, phosphor glow, and vignette to any image.
- Pixel Text — render text in Press Start 2P or VT323 and export as a transparent PNG.
- Dithering Studio — Bayer ordered dithering or Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion with retro palettes.
- Pixel Upscaler — enlarge pixel art with nearest-neighbor interpolation. No blur. Ever.
- ASCII Art — convert any image to classic text art with adjustable density and width.
- 8-bit Avatar — generate a deterministic pixel-art identicon from any name or seed.
More tools are added regularly. Check back or watch the sidebar.
Privacy & your files
Your images and text never leave your browser. Every tool runs entirely client-side using HTML5 Canvas and standard browser APIs. Nothing is uploaded to a server. The only network call is an anonymous, optional analytics beacon that counts page visits — see the privacy policy for full details.