Tux on r/place

You can reach us directly on GitHub, Discord, Matrix, or Telegram.

Tools

Overlay

If you would like to help us place Tux, we highly recommend you use our overlay! It's a userscript that runs through a browser extension that will render an image on top of the r/place canvas showing incorrect pixels:

You can find the installation instructions here.

For troubleshooting regarding the overlay see here, or ask us directly on Discord/Matrix/Telegram.

Coordinate Guide

If you prefer not to use our overlay, you can check out the coordinate guide.

Contributing

You can propose a modification to the artwork by submitting a pull request for artwork/tux/tux.png. After we review and accept it, your change(s) will automatically be deployed.
If you are an ally trying to change your artwork, PR your corresponding artwork with the updated image in artwork/allies/

To change the anchor point of any piece, change the coordinate values in the corresponding entry in your positions.json.

You can find the official color palette here.

More information

Our canvas corners:

(20,679)  (71,679)
(20,758)  (71,758)

Canvas Size?

Ideally we would take up the entire 2000x1000 canvas for ourselves, but that would make other communities sad... And it's also impossible with a community of this size. We would create 3 progressively larger pixel arts (a 50x50, a 75x75 and a 100x100 version) for Tux and Distro/DE. We would draw the appropriate one in r/place, based on territory gained.

Is there a wallpaper?

Yes!

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