For tool makers

Embed Pincel in your tool.

Pincel ships as @amigo-labs/pincel, a framework-agnostic npm package. Mount it in any DOM element. Read and write Aseprite files. Listen for changes. Built on pincel-core (Rust → WASM). Same editor, in your app, no iframe.

Quick start

npm install @amigo-labs/pincel

import { Pincel, ColorMode } from '@amigo-labs/pincel';

const pincel = await Pincel.create({
  width: 64,
  height: 64,
  colorMode: ColorMode.Rgba,
});

pincel.mount(document.getElementById('editor'));

pincel.on('change', () => {
  console.log('document modified');
});

const bytes = await pincel.saveAseprite();

Live demo

Live embed loads here at launch.

For now, try the full editor at /app.

View source

<div id="editor" style="height: 480px"></div>
<script type="module">
  import { Pincel } from '@amigo-labs/pincel';
  const pincel = await Pincel.create({ width: 32, height: 32 });
  pincel.mount(document.getElementById('editor'));
</script>

What you get

Full editor UI, themeable via documented CSS variables.
Public events: change, save, selection, tool-change, palette-change.
Imperative API: loadFile, saveAseprite, exportPng, setActiveLayer, and more.
TypeScript types shipped.
Measured bundle size published per release.
Works in any framework. React adapter, Svelte adapter, plain JS.

What it costs

Free, MIT or Apache 2.0. No telemetry, no licensing, no per-seat fees. If you ship a product using Pincel, you don't owe us anything. If you want to credit us, that's nice.

Honest limits

Bundle is not tiny — it's an editor. For small embeds, consider a read-only viewer (Phase 2).
No headless / Node API in Phase 1 (browser-only). Phase 2 adds Node for pipelines.
Aseprite Lua scripts are not supported and not planned.

Source on GitHub Try the editor first