eliukblau/pixterm

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1019 stars · 57 forks observed · 2026-10-13

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PIXterm is a Go CLI tool that renders images directly in ANSI terminals using true color escape codes and unicode half-block characters. It supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and WebP formats, with optional dithering modes and transparency matte colors.

Use cases

• display an image in my terminal
• preview images over ssh without a gui
• render a png as ascii art in the shell
• show image thumbnails in a terminal
• convert an image to ansi true color output
• view a gif in the command line

When to choose

• you work in a terminal-only or ssh environment and need quick image previews
• your terminal supports true color and a monospaced font with block characters
• you want a fast, dependency-free single binary for terminal image rendering

When to avoid

• your terminal lacks true color support
• you need high-fidelity image viewing with zoom or pan
• you use a proportional font or a font missing the half-block unicode character

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

image-processing cli terminal-ui developer-tools image-processing cli cross-platform go ansi-true-color terminal-graphics dithering unicode-blocks command-line

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