Pixcii is a simple pixel art editor designed to run directly in the terminal (CLI). Perfect for those who love ASCII art or need a lightweight tool to create minimalist sprites.

🧰 Key Features:

• Interactive terminal interface
• Real-time editing with keyboard shortcuts
• Export to .txt
• Color support via ANSI escape codes

🛠️ Built with: C++

🚀 Quick Installation:

You’ll need a C++ compiler and CMake installed on your system.

  
git clone https://github.com/ashish0kumar/pixcii  
cd pixcii  
cmake . -B build  
cmake --build build  
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin  
mv build/pixcii ~/.local/bin  
echo 'PATH="${HOME}/.local/bin:${PATH}"' >> ~/.bashrc  
exec $SHELL  

📢 Usage

Example using this image:

Ideally, use images sized 40x40, though pixcii supports the --scale argument for resizing.

  
pixcii --color -i cpp-logo.png -o output.txt  
cat output.txt  

If there’s no background color, it looks great, but JPG images with black backgrounds will also have their backgrounds ignored.

💡 Useful for prototyping retro art, creating apps, studying terminal manipulation, or making simple assets for ASCII-style games.

For more info, use help:

  
pixcii --help  

Visit the official repository.

cpp cli terminal cppdaily

Marcos Oliveira

Software developer

https://github.com/terroo