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textual-paint
=============
What if MS Paint isn't retro enough?
You need Paint in your terminal.
This is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint, and built with [Textual ](https://textual.textualize.io/ ).
## Development
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Install Textual and Stransi:
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```bash
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pip install "textual[dev]" "stransi"
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```
Run supporting live-reloading CSS:
```bash
textual run --dev paint.py
```
Or run normally:
```bash
python paint.py
```
## License
[MIT ](LICENSE.txt )
## Unicode Symbols and Emojis for Paint Tools
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The first thing I did in this project was to collect possible characters to represent all the tool icons in MS Paint, to test feasibility.
In other words, I wanted to gauge how good of a recreation it would be possible to achieve, starting from looks.
Unfortunately, I haven't run into any significant roadblocks, so I'm apparently recreating MS Paint. [Again. ](https://jspaint.app )
These are the symbols I've found so far:
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- Free-Form Select: ✂️📐🆓🕸✨⚝🫥🇫/🇸◌
- Rectangular Select: ⬚▧🔲
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- Eraser/Color Eraser: 🧼🧽🧹🚫👋🗑️
- Fill With Color: 🌊💦💧🌈🎉🎊🪣🫗
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- Pick Color: 🎨💉💅💧📌📍⤤𝀃🝯🍶
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- Magnifier: 🔍🔎👀🔬🔭🧐🕵️♂️🕵️♀️
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- Pencil: ✏️✎✍️🖎🖊️🖋️✒️🖆📝🖍️
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- Brush: 🖌️🖌👨🎨🧑🎨💅
- Airbrush: 💨ᖜ╔🧴🥤🫠
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- Text: 🆎📝📄📃🔤📜AA
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- Line: 📏📉📈⟍𝈏╲⧹\⧵ ∖
- Curve: ↪️🪝🌙〰️◡◠~∼≈∽∿〜〰﹋﹏≈≋~⁓
- Rectangle: ▭▬▮▯🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛⬜◼️◻️◾◽▪️▫️
- Polygon: ▙𝗟𝙇﹄』⬣⬟🔶🔷🔸🔹🔺🔻△▲
- Ellipse: ⬭⭕🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🟤⚫⚪🫧
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- Rounded Rectangle: ▢⬜⬛
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The default symbols used may not be the best on your particular system, so I may add some kind of configuration for this in the future.
### Cursor
A crosshair cursor could use one of `+✜✛✚╋╬` , but whilst that imitates the look, it might be better to show the pixel under the cursor, i.e. character cell, surrounded by dashes, like this:
```
╻
╺█╸
╹
```
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## See Also
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- [JavE ](http://jave.de/ ), an advanced Java-based ASCII art editor
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- [Playscii ](http://vectorpoem.com/playscii/ ), a beautiful ASCII/ANSI art editor
- [cmdpxl ](https://github.com/knosmos/cmdpxl ), a pixel art editor for the terminal using the keyboard
- [pypixelart ](https://github.com/douglascdev/pypixelart ), a pixel art editor using vim-like keybindings, inspired by cmdpxl but not terminal-based