I built a browser-based recreation of MacPaint (1984) as a tribute to Bill Atkinson and Susan Kare. All the original tools, marquee, lasso, pencil, brush, spray can, paint bucket, eraser, line, shapes, curves, polygons, with pixel-perfect SVG icons inspired by Kare's originals.
Runs in a single HTML file. No build step, no framework, no dependencies. Just canvas, vanilla JS, and the 1-bit aesthetic.
Some pieces aren't fully wired up yet (text tool is basic, some Goodies menu items are stubs), but it felt right to share it on Apple's 50th anniversary rather than wait for perfect.
The tool icons are the real labor of love, each one is hand-drawn SVG recreating Kare's bitmap style at the pixel level. You can output SVG and open up in Illustrator which is nice if you've ever created pixel art. In fact, the icons here were made in the tool.
PixelPaint – A MacPaint tribute for Apple's 50th · HackerTrans
Runs in a single HTML file. No build step, no framework, no dependencies. Just canvas, vanilla JS, and the 1-bit aesthetic.
Some pieces aren't fully wired up yet (text tool is basic, some Goodies menu items are stubs), but it felt right to share it on Apple's 50th anniversary rather than wait for perfect.
The tool icons are the real labor of love, each one is hand-drawn SVG recreating Kare's bitmap style at the pixel level. You can output SVG and open up in Illustrator which is nice if you've ever created pixel art. In fact, the icons here were made in the tool.