Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
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0.9.3526 May 2025
New Magic tools: "Hearts", "Sparkles", and "Stars".
Improved color picker behavior
Text and Label tools support pasting text from the copy/paste clipboard
Text and Label tools attempt to load fonts in locations specified in FontConfig <dir> entries now, too
0.9.3420 Oct 2024
New Fill mode: "Eraser" flood fill.
New Magic tools: "Comic dots", "Rotate", various "ASCII" art, various "Fractals", "Crescent", "Spray Paint", "Spiral", "Square Spiral", "Concentric Circle", "Concentric Square", and a pair of "Tessellation" tools.
New brushes: "Fluff (gradient)", "Graphite", "Impasto", "Paint splats", "Smoke", "Spines", "Water (still)", and "Watercolor splotches".
New brush option: "Chaotic" (random direction).
New templates: "Clouds from an airplane" and "Lough Leane".
0.9.3317 Jul 2024
Transparent Erasers.
Brushes support descriptions.
New brushes: Pencil, Acrylic, Fluff.
New Magic tools: Dither, Filled Polygon.
Updated Magic tools: 3D Glasses (now offers different anaglyph color combinations).
Magic tools may be ungrouped ("ungroupmagictools").
Name of files created by Open>Export and Open>Slideshow>Export GIF are now displayed as well as placed in copy/paste clipboard.
Localization updates.
Improved word wrapping in buttons (via hyphens and soft hyphens).
Drawings removed by the "Erase" option in the Open dialog are moved to the desktop Trash on Haiku now, too.
0.9.3228 Jan 2024
New Magic tools: 1-, 2-, and 3-Point Perspective line-drawing tools (and corresponding vanishing point editors).
New Magic tools: Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, and Oblique line-drawing tools (and corresponding angle editors).
New Magic tools: Epitrochoid and Hypotrochoid generators.
New configuration option, "complexity", which affects the behavior (or availability) of some Magic tools.
Magic tools reorganized (previously ordered alphabetically by localized name).
Font name and size shown when selecting fonts in Text and Label tools.
Bug-fixes and localization updates.