pixdraw

Terminal-based pixel art editor

Features

Drawing tools — brush, line, rect, circle (outline/filled), spray, flood fill, gradient, eraser, eyedropper
Colour management — 14 palette slots, custom RGB input, harmonic colour generator, colour history, colour picker popup
Tabs — multiple canvases, renameable, closeable
Undo/redo — unlimited history per tab
Selection — rectangular select, copy/cut/paste, nudge with arrows
Text overlay — type directly onto the canvas
Game of Life — seed cells and run cellular automata interactively (~6 gen/s)
File I/O — save/load custom .txt format, load images (jpg/png/gif), export PNG
Session persistence — auto-saves every 60s, restore on launch
Configurable — TOML config for themes, palette, keybind overrides
Searchable help — ? for keybinding reference

cargo install pixdraw

Run pixdraw to launch the editor.

cargo run --bin img2pixdraw -- photo.jpg --width 80

Converts any image (jpg, png, gif, bmp) into pixdraw's .txt format, resizing to fit the given width while preserving aspect ratio.

Key	Action
`q`	Quit (saves session)
`?` / `/`	Toggle help

See the in-app help (?) for the full reference.

Config file at ~/.config/pixdraw/config.toml. A fully-commented default is generated on first run.

MIT