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What is REXPaint?

REXPaint is a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor. Use a wide variety of tools to create ANSI block/line art, roguelike mockups and maps, UI layouts, and for other game development needs. Originally an in-house dev tool used by Grid Sage Games for traditional roguelike development, this software has been made available to other developers and artists free of charge. While core functionality and tons of features already exist, occasional updates are known to happen. Unlock your retro potential; join thousands of other REXPaint users today :D

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The latest version can always be found on the Downloads page.

REXPaint is Windows-only, but runs nicely under Wine in Linux/OSX.

Features

Edit characters, foreground, and background colors separately

Draw shapes and text

Copy/cut/paste areas

Undo/redo changes

Preview effects simply by hovering the cursor over the canvas

Palette manipulation

Image-wide color tweaking and palette swaps

True-color RGB/HSV/hex color picker

Create multi-layered images

Zooming: Scale an image by changing font size on the fly

Custom fonts and support for extended characters and tilesets

Browse art assets and begin editing at the press of a button

Images highly compressed

Export PNGs for use in other programs or on the web

Export .ANS files for ANSI art

Other exportable formats: TXT, CSV, XML, XPM, BBCode, C:DDA

Import .TXT files

Skinnable interface

See these features in action on the Features page.

Gallery

Check out some works by REXPaint users. Click any image to see it at full size.

More on the Gallery page. Also see projects that make use of REXPaint here.

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