8bitcn/ui

Retro pixel-art restyle of shadcn/ui: 57 components and 44 blocks

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8bitcn/ui is a full 8-bit/pixel-art reskin of shadcn/ui, distributed as a shadcn registry with 57 components and 44 blocks (102 registry items total). It covers the complete shadcn primitive surface — accordion through tooltip — restyled with pixel borders and a retro font, and then adds game-native pieces most kits lack: health/mana/XP bars, quest logs, save slots, character sheets, leaderboards, pause and game-over screens, plus playable 404 pages. Marketing blocks (hero, pricing, FAQ, CTA, footer, team, timeline) are included so a whole retro site can be assembled from the registry.

Install

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @8bitcn/button

For an agent

Use this when the brief is a game, a jam project, a devtool with attitude, or any product that wants a deliberate retro identity — it is a drop-in restyle, so components keep shadcn's Radix behaviour and prop shapes and you can swap it in over an existing shadcn app almost mechanically. Its real differentiator over a plain retro theme is the game furniture: health-bar, xp-bar, quest-log, save-slots, leaderboard, main-menu, pause-menu and game-over blocks have no equivalent in any general-purpose kit. Watch the pixel font and thick borders — they break dense data tables and long-form reading, so keep it to chrome and marketing surfaces if the app has serious content.

Why it is here. The most complete themed fork of shadcn/ui in this index: it does not just restyle 20 primitives, it covers the whole surface and then adds a game-UI vocabulary nothing else ships.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: MIT
Pricing: Free, Open source
Framework: React, Next.js
Styling: Tailwind CSS v4, Tailwind CSS
Distribution: shadcn registry, CLI installer, Copy-paste snippet, GitHub repository
Platform: Web
Content type: Code
Agent readiness: Machine-readable registry item, CLI installable, Copy-paste ready code, Readable open source
Accessibility: Built on accessible primitives, Keyboard navigable, Accessible
Maturity: Actively maintained
GitHub stars: 2,000

Components it ships

57 total

Helps you build

Homepage Features Pricing Website Faq Login Web App Sign Up 404 Analytics Settings Web App Team Testimonials Public Profile

Templates

Notable for

complete shadcn primitive parity
game UI blocks (health/mana/XP bars, quest log)
playable 404 pages
44 blocks including full marketing sections
MIT, 2k GitHub stars

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://www.8bitcn.com, https://www.8bitcn.com/r/registry.json (full item enumeration), https://github.com/TheOrcDev/8bitcn-ui

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