# jakearchibald/sprite-cow

Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.

Repository: https://github.com/jakearchibald/sprite-cow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sprite-cow
Homepage: http://www.spritecow.com
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-12-06T17:12:25+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": 5555, "days_push": 1366, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1327, forks 139 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:22.895436+00:00)

## What it is
Sprite Cow is a web application that helps developers get the background-position, width, and height of sprites within a spritesheet as copyable CSS. It is designed for manual spritesheet creation where developers want fine control over optimization and compression.

## Use cases
- generate CSS for sprite sheet positions
- get background-position coordinates from a spritesheet image
- copy sprite dimensions as CSS
- create CSS sprites manually with precise measurements
- scale sprites for retina displays
- generate percent-based sprite positioning CSS

## When to choose
- you build spritesheets manually in graphics apps and need exact CSS coordinates
- you want control over sprite optimization and compression rather than automated generators
- you need a quick browser-based tool without installation

## When to avoid
- you prefer automated spritesheet generators integrated into your build pipeline
- your project no longer uses CSS image sprites
- you need offline or programmable tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, developer-tools, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: css-sprites, spritesheet, css-generation, web-tool, web, javascript

## Member repositories
- jakearchibald/sprite-cow (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.895436+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 2026-08-30T04:46:17.716853+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jakearchibald/sprite-cow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.895436+00:00, sha d6d44c83242d)
  - homepage: http://www.spritecow.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:05:27.031171+00:00, sha 2292696c15a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.