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88x31 button in Aseprite

matt — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:21:33 +0000

I discovered Aseprite back in June but haven’t played with it much since then. I finally spent another evening with it and produced this tacky 88x31 button. This is such a fun app to use, and a steal for $20.

It’s a pixel editor, so you’re working very much zoomed in. The image this exported is tiny by comparison. I’ve got the UI zoomed in too because my eyes stink. You create frames to animate and can use layers for keeping elements separate. It’s got all the basic paint tools you’d expect, and goes pretty deep on features in some areas.

88x31 buttons were popular back in the days of Geocities.

Here is the .asperite file, and below is the final product rendered to GIF. You can see in the screen shot above, there’s a faded sunburst that throbs in and out with the animation, but its so small you can’t really see it.

I’d like to try some art with it next. Maybe reproduce some album cover art in pixel form…

matt — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:57:00 +0000

Excalidraw is a simple but highly capable wireframe editor and drawing tool. It runs entirely in the browser and saves data to browser storage — no cloud service required. You can also save and load drawings to and from a local file. The software is free and open source. A reasonably priced paid version adds some optional niceties like access controls and cloud storage.

matt — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 04:00:47 +0000

I was cruising around this lovely personal website — another pixel artist — and was curious what tool she uses to create her art. It’s https://www.piskelapp.com/ — a fun and free web-based alternative to Aseprite that can save files in browser storage.