BeadPattern

BeadPattern solves a small but genuinely annoying craft problem: translating an idea or a photograph into a fuse-bead chart you can actually follow peg by peg. You either type a word or upload an image, choose your grid size, and the tool maps the artwork onto a bead grid, quantising every pixel to the nearest colour in a real manufacturer palette. That palette step is what separates it from a generic pixel-art converter — the output is expressed in Perler, Hama or Artkal colour codes, so you are matching against beads you can buy rather than approximate RGB values you then have to eyeball in a craft shop. Alongside the chart it produces a bead count per colour, which is the difference between finishing a project and stopping halfway because you ran out of a specific shade. Exports come as printable PDF or PNG, so you can work from paper next to the pegboard or from a tablet. In practice it suits parents and teachers making weekend projects, crafters selling on marketplaces who need repeatable patterns, and anyone converting logos or sprites into physical bead art. The limitations are the honest ones for this category: photographs with fine detail or low contrast lose legibility at small grid sizes, and colour matching can only be as good as the palette you pick. It is free to use, which makes trying a conversion before committing to bead orders essentially costless.