Aloxaf/silicon

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3579 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Silicon is a Rust CLI tool that renders source code into beautiful, shareable images, serving as an offline alternative to the Carbon web app. It supports clipboard input/output, custom fonts, themes, line highlighting, and background customization.

Use cases

• create beautiful image of source code
• generate code screenshots from the command line
• convert code snippet to png for presentations
• offline alternative to carbon for code images
• copy syntax-highlighted code image to clipboard
• highlight specific lines in a code screenshot

When to choose

• you want fast, offline code-to-image rendering without a browser
• you want to script or automate code screenshot generation in the shell
• you need clipboard-based workflows for sharing snippets

When to avoid

• you prefer Carbon's more polished visual output
• you need a GUI or web-based editor for styling code images
• building on Windows without dealing with extra font dependencies

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

image-processing cli developer-tools developer-tools graphics windows cli rust code-screenshots syntax-highlighting carbon-alternative presentation command-line linux macos

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