Makes classic Netscape Now! style web badges. Renders to a true 88×31 canvas with no smoothing. Exports PNG and animated GIF. Runs entirely in your browser. No server, no tracking, no nonsense.
Click a preset to load it. All settings below are editable after.
Snap to positions:
If the image is an animated GIF, the output GIF inherits its frame timing.
Stacking order — top of the list draws in front. The border always sits on top.
Frame 0 is the base. Edit it with the main controls. Other frames can override specific values below.
88×31 buttons are the classic web badge size. Netscape kicked it off in 1996 with their "Netscape Now!" promotional buttons, and the indie web has been using them ever since. They still show up on personal sites, webrings, and Neocities pages as a nostalgic pushback against how same-y modern web design has gotten.
Tips: Use image-rendering: pixelated; in your CSS
when embedding so the buttons stay crisp on high-DPI displays. Add
<link rel="icon" sizes="88x31" href="button.png"> in your site
head so others can discover your button. If you want full authenticity, save
as GIF even for static ones. That's what they did in 1997.
All rendering happens client-side in your browser — no server, no tracking.
The app is a handful of static files (index.html, styles.css,
app.js, and the bundled icons.js icon set). The only things
fetched from the network are optional: Google Fonts are loaded on demand when you pick
a web font, and gif.js is pulled from a CDN when you export an animated GIF.
The core editor works offline without them.
Primary icon set: Pixel Icon Library by HackerNoon, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Pixel Icon Library — (c) HackerNoon https://pixeliconlibrary.com/ Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You are free to share and adapt the icons for any purpose, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Changes: the original .svg files were converted into single fill-path data and rescaled for use in this app.
Additional icons: pixelarticons.com by Gerrit Halfmann.
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