A CLI tool that generates beautiful, customizable images of your code directly from the terminal.
Carbon Now CLI is a command-line interface tool that generates visually appealing images of code snippets. It solves the problem of creating shareable, beautiful code representations for documentation, presentations, or social media without using a web browser. The tool connects to the Carbon rendering service to produce high-quality images with syntax highlighting and customizable themes.
Developers, technical writers, and educators who frequently need to share code snippets in presentations, documentation, blogs, or social media posts.
Developers choose Carbon Now CLI for its seamless terminal integration, extensive customization options, and time-saving features like presets and clipboard support, eliminating the need to manually use a web-based tool.
🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
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Downloads real Carbon-generated images in PNG or SVG format, not DOM screenshots, ensuring crisp, shareable visuals for code snippets.
Offers an interactive mode to tweak themes, fonts, padding, and other settings before generation, as demonstrated in the demo GIF for fine-tuned control.
Allows saving and re-using custom configurations as named presets, enabling consistent styling across multiple code snippets without repeated setup.
Copies generated images directly to the clipboard on Windows, macOS, and Linux (with xclip), facilitating quick sharing without manual saving.
Relies on the Carbon web service and Playwright for rendering, making it vulnerable to network issues, service changes, or downtime.
Requires manual installation of xclip on Linux for clipboard functionality, adding an extra setup step that isn't needed on other OSes.
Custom theme colors are not applied when using --open-in-browser due to localStorage limitations, reducing the utility of browser-based previews.