💭 Rich Pixels
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!https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/2/rich-pixels/#atom-everything

Date: September 2, 2025

Rich Pixels
 Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key …
 Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]

I saw this post from Simon and I had to give it a go and got some pretty good results. His script is a small cli wrapper around Darren Burns's [Rich Pixels](https://github.com/darrenburns/rich-pixels). It works well even through tmux, since there is no terminal magic, just unicode blocks.

![screenshot-2025-09-02T13-39-25-710Z.png](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/024bf3e0-9c38-4c1e-ad5c-ed0156c9a99b.png)

![screenshot-2025-09-02T13-40-22-890Z.png](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/4bf522eb-4207-4a23-b5d0-626cefc8bdca.png)

![screenshot-2025-09-02T13-41-39-775Z.png](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/d061e85f-98cf-4b3c-871c-e01611022b44.png)

Some not so good, and needed the terminal font size cranked up.

![screenshot-2025-09-02T13-38-16-641Z.png](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/a532f113-185e-44ef-bcf8-30eed7e3f62a.png)

![screenshot-2025-09-02T13-38-46-814Z.png](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/a66d4d7a-975d-4909-88a2-3761e2d3348f.png)

!!! note

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References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/2/rich-pixels/#atom-everything
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/