rusticon

Crates.io	rusticon
lib.rs	rusticon
version	0.2.3
created_at	2025-08-23 03:14:45.744674+00
updated_at	2025-09-05 18:08:04.148287+00
description	Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.
homepage	https://github.com/ronilan/rusticon
repository	https://github.com/ronilan/rusticon
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Ron Ilan (ronilan)

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README

Rusticon

Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.

It creates, and then edits svg images that can be used as website favicons (i.e. the little icons that appear at the top tabs etc.). Icons can be 8 pixels by 8 pixels, or 16 pixels by 16 pixels, utilizing 256 colors.

It's written in Rust.

Install

Pre Built Binaries

Pre built binaries are provided for each release.

From crates.io

Rusticon is published as a crate on crates.io. If you have Cargo, you can install it with

cargo install rusticon

You will be able to invoke the binary as rusticon.

rusticon

From Source

If you don't want to install a Rust crate, but do have Rust installed, you can build and run Rusticon directly from source.

Clone this repository,

git clone https://github.com/ronilan/rusticon.git

cargo run --release

Use

Drawing

Hover over color pickers to see color.
Click to pick color.
Click to place them on the canvas.
Drag to draw multiple pixels.
Shift + Click for flood fill.
Ctrl + Click to pick color from canvas.
Palette at bottom allows to "collect colors". Click to choose where to place selected.
Save to save and exit.
Exit to exit without save.
16x16 to start new icon.
8x8 to start new icon.

Files

Command line argument to provide file name rusticon ./icons/favicon.svg
Can open files created by Rusticon (or by Crubmicon) with .svg extension (own format).
Can open image files. Will resize and resample to 16x16 and then save as .svg in own format.
When provided with a path to non existing file, will create it with .svg extension.
Will abort when file is not a workable image.