Lab

PixelGrid Studio

Lab
A layout tool on a fixed grid: photos, fragments, brush and colour blocks in layers.
Year
2026
Tools
  • JavaScript
  • Canvas
  • Layers

Open tool Runs right in the browser, nothing to install.

The idea

A poster on a coarse grid forces decisions: every cell is either filled or empty. How much design is possible when the grid decides everything?

What it’s for

Fast layouts for posters, social media formats and editorial pages with a clear, constructed signature. Layers and progress can be changed at any time, the grid logic stays.

A design tool where everything snaps to the grid: photos lock in, the brush paints cells, colour blocks and contours follow the lines. Photos can be dissolved into fragments that thin out along patterns such as diagonal, corner or stairs.

  • Formats from A4 to social 4:5, grid size freely adjustable
  • Layers with visibility, order, opacity and duplication
  • Masks along the grid lines, an x-ray tool to look through to lower layers
  • Undo and redo, export as PNG without guides