12 Retro and game styles

Pixel art, 8-bit and 16-bit game screens, vintage print and other looks borrowed from older media. Use them for nostalgia, game assets and anything that should feel like it came from another decade.

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Pixel Art AI art style example

Pixel Art

Retro video-game pixel art: everything drawn on a visible low-resolution square pixel grid with crisp hard edges, no anti-aliasing and a limited palette of about sixteen colours.

Synthwave Neon AI art style example

Synthwave Neon

Retro-futuristic synthwave art: glowing neon magenta, cyan and violet lines on a deep purple-black night, a striped sunset sun, wireframe grids stretching to the horizon, palm silhouettes and chrome highlights.

Cyberpunk Digital Painting AI art style example

Cyberpunk Digital Painting

Cyberpunk digital painting: dense futuristic megacity streets at night, rain, holographic signs, cables and steam, with glowing cyan and magenta neon against deep shadows.

Low Poly AI art style example

Low Poly

Low-poly 3D art: every form built from a small number of flat, faceted triangles with no smoothing, so each facet catches the light as a single clean tone.

80s Cyberpunk Anime AI art style example

80s Cyberpunk Anime

Late-1980s cyberpunk cel anime: sharp hand-inked lines, hard-edged cel shadows and rich, moody hand-painted backgrounds of neon-lit cities and rain.

80s City Pop AI art style example

80s City Pop

1980s city-pop illustration: crisp clean lines, stylish figures with glossy hair, big sunglasses and sharp fashion, set against pools, palm trees, convertibles and city skylines.

Retro Japanese Girl Magazine AI art style example

Retro Japanese Girl Magazine

Vintage 1960s–70s Japanese girls' magazine illustration: big sparkling eyes, long lashes, wavy hair and fashionable retro outfits.

Retro Japanese Ad Cartoon AI art style example

Retro Japanese Ad Cartoon

Mid-century commercial cartoon from vintage Japanese advertising: round, cheerful figures with simple dot eyes and big smiles, crisp outlines and flat, bright retro colours in red, mustard, turquoise and cream.

1930s Shanghai Poster AI art style example

1930s Shanghai Poster

Vintage 1920s–30s Shanghai calendar-poster painting: glamorous figures in elegant period dress with softly airbrushed skin, rosy cheeks and graceful poses.

Action Game Cover Art AI art style example

Action Game Cover Art

Open-world action game cover art: a bold digital painting with realistic proportions, crisp cel-shaded rendering, hard graphic shadows and a smooth vector-like finish.

Isometric Voxel World AI art style example

Isometric Voxel World

Isometric voxel art: every subject built from small 3D cubes with crisp blocky forms and charming game-avatar proportions, standing on a small floating island of grass and earth blocks.

Cyan Hologram AI art style example

Cyan Hologram

Futuristic hologram: the scene projected in translucent cyan and electric-blue light, with fine scan lines, flickering edges, glowing particles and a soft volumetric beam.