Pixel Text
Type words. Get a pixel-font PNG. No Photoshop needed.
About the Pixel Text generator
Pixel Text renders your words using retro arcade fonts directly on an HTML5 Canvas — entirely in your browser. Type any text, choose a font and size, set colors, and download a lossless PNG. Transparent background is supported, so you can layer the text onto other images in any graphics editor or paste it directly into a game engine.
For pairing ideas: use a Game Boy or PICO-8 palette from the Palette Extractor to pick colors that match a retro screenshot, or combine your text with an 8-bit Avatar for a full pixel-art identity kit.
Fonts
Press Start 2P — designed by CodeMan38, based on the glyph shapes from 1980s Namco arcade hardware. The character grid is 8×8 pixels with a 1-pixel border — use multiples of 8px for the crispest output. This is the font used in thousands of indie game titles, jam entries, and chiptune cover art.
VT323 — inspired by the character ROM of the DEC VT100 terminal (1978). It's a monospace pixel font that scales cleanly to much larger sizes than Press Start 2P. Great for long banners, countdown timers, or anything that needs retro terminal energy.
Use cases
Game titles & logos — quickly prototype a title card without opening a graphics editor.
YouTube & Twitch thumbnails — press Start 2P text reads instantly in a thumbnail grid.
README banners — pixel-font PNGs in GitHub READMEs are immediately distinctive.
Stream overlays — transparent-background PNGs drop straight into OBS as image sources.
Itch.io & game jam covers — standard retro-game aesthetic, generated in seconds.
FAQ
Can I use the output commercially? Yes — both fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), and the rendering is done locally by you.
Why does Press Start 2P look blurry at certain sizes? It's a bitmap font designed on an 8px grid. Use multiples of 8 (8, 16, 24, 32…) for pixel-perfect output. Odd sizes cause sub-pixel aliasing.
Can I have multiple lines? Yes — press Enter in the text area. Each line is rendered separately with consistent line spacing.
Is my text sent anywhere? No. The canvas renders entirely in your browser. The fonts load from Google Fonts on first use, then are cached locally.