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jarnix
This looks like https://www.marmoset.co/hexels/ (which is awesome)
slazaro
Yeah, I immediately thought of Hexels too, which already has had a community and lots of artwork done with it for a few years.

I'd suggest having a few examples of artwork and screenshots in this landing page, it's very dry for an art creation tool.

Chriky
Is there a way to align the grid vertically? It's much easier to draw buildings etc if you can have vertical lines
maxwellito
Click on the 'orientation' label in the creation form ;)
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gecko39
Cool.. could you make it so command+click deletes the cell?
maxwellito
You can select, then press 'backspace' on your keyboard. That should do the trick :)
gecko39
Hmm.. that's not working for me on a mac. I can select a single triangle? option/command + click would be quite convenient vs select each individual cell... since you could drag to erase.
rzzzt
XOR-like behavior for the draw tool without any modifiers would work as well.
metalliqaz
Doesn't work for me, just a blank screen.
maxwellito
Firefox seems to not like my hack on 'location'. There's a PR to fix it but I can't review it atm :-S
erikj
It loads a blank page for me when I start a new canvas.
rzzzt
Your ad blocker might need to be disabled. I also had the same problem, but it worked after adding an exception for the page in uBlockO (the extension icon did not indicate that anything was blocked, though).
max-m
Had that problem on my first try in Firefox 57. It worked after reloading the page once.
metalliqaz
Why does the dropper tool not let you pick an already used color?
maxwellito
So when I was doing stuff with it, I realised I don't wanted to save in my palette all the color I used for the illustration. So add colors to the palette has to be a manual action from the user. But Im open to suggestions, you're not the first and not the last to complain about it :) [some people find it extremely confusing]
zachsnow
A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).
maxwellito
Oh yes, that's a silly miss from me :-O Thanks!!
slco1
Something like this could have a lot of use for the creation of quilt patterns.
psyc
This is really nice. Much nicer than the plotter apps I've tried to use recently. Lots of attention given to UX details. I needed something like this with square cels recently. The best web app I could find was kind of terrible. You couldn't save, and it slowed to a crawl after a hundred pixels or so.
RodgerTheGreat
Consider mapping right-click to erase or draw with a secondary color. MSPaint had this feature and it was ideal for "pushing around" pixels. I've sorely missed this functionality in most pixel art tools.