Built for blocky shapes
Pixel mode keeps straight edges and sharp corners, so a sprite stays a sprite. Nothing gets smoothed into a blurry blob, and single-pixel details survive.
Convert Pixel Art to SVG
Keep hard pixel edges — no blurry anti-aliasing, no accidental smoothing.
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Pixels in, squares out
Normal tracing rounds corners to make curves look natural. Pixel art wants the opposite: hard 90° steps, aligned to the original grid.
One path per color
The palette is small by definition, so each color becomes a tidy group of squares you can recolor independently — handy for palette swaps and merchandise variants.
Infinitely scalable
The SVG keeps working from a 16 px favicon to a metre-wide wall print. That is impossible with a 64 px PNG sprite, which is the usual reason people convert in the first place.
Keeping the grid intact
Four small habits that make the difference between crisp and mushy.
Use the original sprite
Start from the untouched pixel file rather than a resized copy. A sprite scaled up in an image editor with smoothing already has soft edges, and those become rounded shapes when traced.
Match the palette
Set Colors to the number of colors your sprite actually uses, or one or two more. Extra slots invite shading noise; too few merges distinct parts of the character.
Turn smoothing down
Smoothness near 0 and a high corner sharpness keep the stair-steps. If the preview looks like a blown-up bitmap with rounded corners, smoothing is too high.
Avoid resampling in between
Do not screenshot sprites from a browser zoomed to 400% — that reintroduces anti-aliased edges. Save or download the original file instead.
Why turn pixel art into SVG
Pixel art is meant to be small; SVG lets the same design leave the screen.
Print on demand
T-shirts, mugs and posters need print resolution. A vector sprite scales to the printer's requirements with no resampling and no fuzzy pixels.
Stickers and vinyl
Cutters follow outlines. Solid blocks of color are the easiest shapes a cutting machine will ever see, so a traced sprite cuts cleanly with almost no cleanup.
Games, docs and UI
Sprite sheets and icons used in documentation or a web UI can live as SVG, staying sharp on high-density displays and letting you adjust colors with CSS.
Frequently asked questions
Will the SVG keep the exact pixel grid?
Shapes snap to the pixel boundaries of the source image, so the grid is preserved. Each color becomes a set of squares and rectangles at the original coordinates — clean geometry rather than an upscaled bitmap.
Should I enlarge the sprite before converting?
No. Upload the original resolution file; the converter handles scaling itself. Pre-resized copies often have smoothed edges, which defeats the point of pixel mode and produces rounded corners.
What color count should I set for a sprite?
Count the palette of the artwork — often 4 to 16 colors. Setting the slider to that number keeps the shape crisp; a much higher value adds shades that were never in the design.
Can I convert an animated sprite sheet?
The converter works on a still image. If you upload a sheet, it traces the frames as drawn on that canvas; for a single animation frame, crop that frame first and convert it on its own.
Is pixel art tracing free on Convertars?
Yes, with no account, no watermark and no export limit. Uploads and results are kept for up to 30 days to help improve the converter, then deleted automatically — never sold or shared. See the privacy policy (/privacy) for what is recorded.