# Aloxaf/silicon

Create beautiful image of your source code.

Repository: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/silicon
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, snippets, carbon, presentation
Last push: 2024-09-26T01:08:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2614, "days_push": 707, "days_rel": 707, "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 3579, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:10.900325+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, graphics
- platform: windows, cli, rust
- tags: code-screenshots, syntax-highlighting, carbon-alternative, presentation, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Aloxaf/silicon (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:10.900325+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 2026-08-29T18:34:00.182417+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:10.900325+00:00, sha 5a86f4155282)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/silicon (fetched 2026-08-29T09:27:28.919627+00:00, sha 577e638ef2c4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.