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Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.
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Lospec Palette List sits in Pixel Art under Make, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as useful, beautiful and brainy.
Sprite editors and pixel canvases. The limited grid does most of the design work for you, which is why beginners' output looks good immediately.
Pixel canvas designed for thumbs first, fed by a huge stream of daily themed drawings from a mostly Japanese community.
Browser sprite editor built around palette discipline, with the specific constraints pixel artists keep asking for.
Deliberately tiny paint tool inside a fake old window, with fat pixels and a palette that makes clumsy art look intentional.
Minecraft skin editor with a 3D preview you can spin, plus a gallery of other people's skins to take apart and reuse.
Sprite and animation editor with onion skinning and a live loop preview, exporting straight to a spritesheet or GIF.
Grid, palette, mouse. The whole tool fits on one page and you are drawing about three seconds after it loads.
Draw on the grid and it writes the box-shadow monstrosity that renders your sprite with no image file involved at all.
Feed it a photograph and it hands back a pixel-art version, with block size and palette entirely under your control.