# carbon-app/carbon

:black_heart: Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Repository: https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/carbon
Homepage: https://carbon.now.sh
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: carbon, javascript, beautiful, snippets, github-gist, sharing, education, tweet, presentation
Last push: 2026-02-10T05:07:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3365, "days_push": 204, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 36088, forks 1976 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.961836+00:00)

## What it is
Carbon is a web application for creating and sharing beautiful images of source code, with customizable syntax themes, backgrounds, and window styles. It supports importing code via paste, file drop, or GitHub gist, and exporting as PNG or SVG for sharing on social media.

## Use cases
- create beautiful code screenshots for twitter
- turn code snippet into shareable image
- make code images for presentations
- export code snippet as png or svg
- share code snippet from github gist as image
- styled code screenshot for blog post

## When to choose
- you want polished, shareable images of code for social media, docs, or slides
- you need quick customization of themes, fonts, and backgrounds without setup
- you want to import directly from GitHub gists or files

## When to avoid
- you need code rendered as actual text for accessibility or copy-paste
- you want automated or batch screenshot generation in a pipeline
- you need an offline or CLI-only workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, developer-tools, editor
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, education
- platform: browser
- tags: code-screenshots, syntax-highlighting, snippet-sharing, social-media, presentation, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- carbon-app/carbon (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.961836+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 2026-08-29T16:26:43.800502+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.961836+00:00, sha 1565b717766b)
  - homepage: https://carbon.now.sh (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:05.374411+00:00, sha 805e48594210)
  - site_page: https://carbon.now.sh/about (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:05.376775+00:00, sha d273ceab67c2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.