# 1j01/textual-paint

:art: MS Paint in your terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/textual-paint
Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/textual-paint/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: image, image-editor, mspaint, paint, textual, tui, ansi-art, ascii-art, ansi-editor, artscene, drawing, pixel-art, pixel-editor, terminal, bbs, text-art, irc, mirc
Last push: 2026-02-21T22:00:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 68, release rhythm 35, longevity 88
- inputs: {"age_days": 1241, "days_push": 193, "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 1122, forks 19 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:40.046836+00:00)

## What it is
Textual Paint is a terminal-based (TUI) image editor that recreates the classic MS Paint interface, built with the Textual framework in Python. It supports editing ANSI art and raster images with all the classic MS Paint tools, undo/redo, file dialogs, and localization into 26 languages.

## Use cases
- edit ANSI art files in the terminal
- draw pixel art over SSH
- open and save images from the command line
- recreate MS Paint workflows in a TUI
- create text art for BBS or IRC
- convert between ANSI art and raster image formats

## When to choose
- you want an MS Paint-like editor that runs in a terminal or over SSH
- you edit ANSI/ASCII art or pixel art and prefer a text-based workflow
- you need a lightweight, cross-platform drawing tool without a GUI dependency

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured modern image editor with layers and advanced filters
- your terminal lacks the required Unicode/color support
- you are on Python 3.13, which is not yet supported

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, gui, terminal-ui, graphics
- domain: graphics, image-processing, developer-tools, media
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform, python
- tags: tui, ms-paint, ansi-art, ascii-art, pixel-art, image-editor, textual, drawing, retro-computing, bbs, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- 1j01/textual-paint (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:40.046836+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 2026-08-30T06:40:54.137309+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:40.046836+00:00, sha 2cbd9d659442)
  - homepage: https://pypi.org/project/textual-paint/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:44:51.755482+00:00, sha 4b4e8fead74a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/textual-paint/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:44:51.764325+00:00, sha 5f207b77e230)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.