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mabel 🍁

Declarative pixel art. Mabel lets you create tiny pixel art images by writing pixels as characters in a text file!

Here’s a little example that outputs the infamous CS Source missing texture pattern:

size: 64
palette:
c = #000000
s = #ff00dc

-- pixels
cscscscs
scscscsc
cscscscs
scscscsc
cscscscs
scscscsc
cscscscs
scscscsc
-- pixels

css

for an in-depth explanation checkout the Format section.

Installation

cargo install mabel

mabel <input.eno> [-o output.png]

mabel -h for more information.

mabel uses the Eno data language, you can learn more about the Eno format here.

Name	Type	Required	Notes
size	u8	No	The size of each pixel in the image.
width	u32	No	The amount of pixels in the x-axis.
height	u32	No	The amount of pixels in the y-axis.
palette	Fieldset	No	The color palette. Keys are the characters and values are the colors. Keys must be one character long. Colors can be anything that color-art supports.
pixels	Multiline Field	Yes	The image data. Spaces and empty lines are transparent. Characters must be defined in `palette`.

To see some examples, check out the examples directory.

mabel can convert an aseprite file (.ase/.aseprite) into Eno; allowing you to edit aseprite files with mabel.

mabel aseprite <input.ase> [-o output.eno]

This feature is gated behind an aseprite feature flag. Enabled by default.

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