GoKawiilClawdMoji
Pixel-perfect recreations of the Clawd mascot as Slack emoji — a growing cast of animated variants, all generated programmatically from the original logo. No image editor involved.
Original Clawdster This is Clawd 🔥 London Clawd 🌧️ Clawd Surfing 🏄 Mariachlawd 🪇 Bug Claught 🦋 Clawdin Hood 🏹 Definitely Not Clawd 🥸
Browse the live gallery (GIFs animate + click-to-copy Slack names), or grab the ready-to-upload emoji pack.
All outputs are 128×128 PNG/GIF with transparent backgrounds, sized for Slack custom emoji (≤ 128 KB).
The pixel grid
The starting point was a screenshot of the "Welcome, Clawd" splash ( source/clawd_source.png ). tools/analyze_grid.py recovers the pixel-art grid underneath it:
isolate the orange body by colour, find every silhouette edge, cluster out the ~1 px anti-aliasing jitter, pick the cell size that best divides all the edge positions.
Result — the logo is drawn on a 12 × 8 grid, cell ≈ 18 px in the 335×597 source (the detector reports a 9 px / 24×16 harmonic because every feature is exactly two cells thick; the native art is 12×8). Sampled colours: body #DA7758 , eyes #000000 .
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