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Show HN: Paintpot – Kid-friendly MSPaint clone for Linux

Posted by deposittag on Saturday November 14, 2026 @04:56PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/marktbaldridge/paintpot/

Most of the alternatives diverged from the true fun of MSPaint that I had as a child. My children also seem to enjoy this. The closest existing project was "Drawing" on Linux, but I felt it couldn't decide if it was a vector or a raster editor, and this confused my kids, and made good fill pours difficult.Features added beyond original Paint: - Draw circles starting from the center. - OKLCH...

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Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:16AM (#47309396)

I really wanted to make this work with my daughter. She's 9yo, and she filled out the form, and we scanned it with a real scanner. I'll admit we didn't have a felt tip pen, but we did have a grea black ink gell pen.

But something about the way the app applied the threshold on the scanned image, made the letters really broken. Maybe having a thicker pen would be the solution.