This tag ("pixel") has been aliased into the tag "pixel art".
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Short description: often small scale bitmap art with high degree of information per pixel, high degree of manual pixel control, and controlled, limited palettes
Aliases: pixel, pixelart
Implies: digital art

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Detailed description:
Pixel art is an aesthetic of bitmap art that uses the technical limits of early computer hardware as creative constraints.
The main distinctions from other unaliased or “pixelly” styles are high information-per-pixel ratio (also known as “pixel economy”), and controlled, limited palettes.
Palette control excludes the usage of tools with automated antialias such as soft brushes. The visual range of limited palettes are extended by dithering and using shared highlight and deepshade colours for multiple ramps.

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