Pixel Art Desk Mats & Retro Mouse Pads

How to choose your pixel art desk mat

Forty-seven designs is a lot to scroll. They sort into six worlds.

RPG maps and fantasy worlds

Parchment continents, trade routes, sea monsters in the margins. These are the ones people notice from across a room and then walk over to read, and they only work at the larger sizes. Start with the fantasy world map or the RPG map.

Castles, knights and dragons

Towers on cliffs, a lone knight on a ridge, a dragon over a burning valley. High-fantasy and unapologetic about it. See the medieval fantasy castle and the fantasy dragon.

Cozy villages and forests

Warm windows, autumn trees, a windmill turning over a field. The quiet half of the collection, closer to a farming sim than a dungeon crawl, and the group that holds up best on a desk you also work from. Look at the cozy forest and the countryside.

Neon cities and cyberpunk

Rain on glass, signage in three languages, purple light bouncing off everything. The darkest designs here, which also makes them the most forgiving about dust and wear. The rainy neon city and the cyberpunk city.

Space in 8-bit

Observatories, spacecraft, an astronaut rendered in about thirty pixels. Sits between this collection and the space one, and works on a desk that has nothing else going on. The galaxy observatory and the pixel art astronaut.

Seasonal, but only just

A few of these lean into a season without committing to a holiday: fall forests in orange and rust, snowstorms over a mountain pass, a haunted house that reads as retro game rather than Halloween decor. They stay up all year. The fall landscape and the snowstorm mountain.

Which size for pixel art

Pixel art is the one style where size changes what you actually get. A landscape or a map needs the 16" × 32" to read as a scene; at 9" × 7" you're looking at a detail of it. If you want the small size, pick a design with one clear subject — a castle, a tree, a spacecraft — rather than a sprawling world.