# draeton/stitches

HTML5 Sprite Sheet Generator

Repository: https://github.com/draeton/stitches
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/draeton-stitches
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-12-16T04:34:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5407, "days_push": 1356, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1040, forks 236 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.399840+00:00)

## What it is
Stitches is an HTML5 sprite sheet generator that combines multiple images into a single sprite sheet with CSS coordinates using a browser-based canvas tool. It runs as a drop-in web widget built on jQuery, Modernizr, and Bootstrap.

## Use cases
- generate a sprite sheet from multiple png icons
- combine images into one sprite with css coordinates
- reduce http requests by packing images into a sprite sheet
- browser tool to build css sprites
- create sprite sheets for web game assets

## When to choose
- you need a quick, in-browser way to pack images into a sprite sheet
- you want a simple MIT-licensed tool with no build pipeline
- you're maintaining a legacy site that uses classic CSS sprites

## When to avoid
- you need modern tooling like webpack, Vite, or SVG sprites
- you require active development or recent browser features
- you want automated sprite generation in a CI pipeline

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, developer-tools, gui
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: sprite-sheet, canvas, html5, image-optimization, web-performance, web, javascript

## Member repositories
- draeton/stitches (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.399840+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 2026-08-30T07:03:29.503453+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/draeton/stitches (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.399840+00:00, sha b8896161c1fb)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/stitches (fetched 2026-08-29T13:04:08.418482+00:00, sha 4cf7c9c3541f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.