Bitmap Creator
Choose a colour depth and grid size, customise the palette, then paint pixels. The full binary representation updates in real time below.
Colour depth
Grid size
Tool
Canvas
Colour Palette
0000
Black
0001
Dark Blue
0010
Dark Green
0011
Dark Cyan
0100
Dark Red
0101
Dark Magenta
0110
Brown
0111
Light Grey
1000
Dark Grey
1001
Blue
1010
Green
1011
Cyan
1100
Red
1101
Magenta
1110
Yellow
1111
White
Selected colour
Index: 1
Binary: 0001
Hex: #0000AA
4-bit colour depth
16 colours in palette
4 bits per pixel
Each pixel stores an index 0–15
Click or drag to paint with the selected colour.
2Binary Representation
Each value is the binary colour-palette index for that pixel, left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Rows are numbered 0–15 on the left. (A real BMP file would also include a file header, image header, and colour table before this pixel data.)