# mixn/carbon-now-cli

🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/carbon-now-cli
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cli-app, cli, cli-utilities, cli-utility, cli-tool, cli-application, cli-command, command-line, nodejs, node
Last push: 2025-11-14T13:08:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 46/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 52, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2984, "days_push": 292, "days_rel": 629, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6030, forks 125 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:34.416104+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js CLI tool that generates beautiful images of your code from the terminal, powered by carbon.now.sh. It downloads real high-quality PNG/SVG images with customizable themes, presets, and interactive mode.

## Use cases
- generate a beautiful image of a code snippet from the terminal
- create code screenshots for blog posts or social media
- turn a source file into a PNG or SVG with custom theme colors
- copy a code image directly to the clipboard
- batch-generate images for multiple files with concurrency
- render only selected lines of a file as an image

## When to choose
- you want polished code images without leaving the terminal
- you need repeatable styling via saved presets
- you want clipboard or stdin input and PNG/SVG output

## When to avoid
- you need offline image generation without network access to carbon.now.sh
- you want a GUI editor for tweaking images visually

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, image-processing, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, media
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: carbon-now, code-screenshots, code-images, syntax-highlighting, terminal, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mixn/carbon-now-cli (main) score 46

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.416104+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:49:13.643977+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.416104+00:00, sha e280c1fb4d81)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/carbon-now-cli (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:34.580157+00:00, sha 1829117c8920)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.