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new blinkies every Saturday!

about blinkie gifs

pretend it's 1999! customize retro blinkie graphics!

blinkies are tiny, 150x20-pixel animated gifs used as badges to share interests and tell jokes! they were popular decorations in early-2000s Geocities-era personal websites & Myspace pages.

blinkies.cafe is a blinkie generator you can use to create your own blinkie gifs, choosing from dozens of styles and adding whatever text you like!

blinkies are great for:

• badges for your website or blog, to show off your interests!
• eye-catching links on your streaming page!
• fun, sparkly messages in chat apps!
• flashy email & forum signatures!

blinkies.cafe is in active development.

enjoy~

our links

staff:

  Amy (admin/dev): tumblr, twitter, neocities, deviantart

  Anakin (artist): templates, tumblr
  

email:   hi@blinkies.cafe
tips:    ko-fi

also check out our chrome extension !!

blinkies.cafe is a member of the yesterweb ring:
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what's new

• font selection!!
• progressive web app!
• insert symbols directly into input text, no need for /codes!
• added toggleable symbols list
• vary framerate slightly to avoid .mp4 conversion on tumblr
• added a feed of recent user-created blinkies!
• added "smileys" tag!
• text outline for readability on high-contrast backgrounds!
• submit from keyboard on mobile
• played with homepage!
• wrote a blinkie making tutorial!

planned features

• click blinkie in feed to generate with that style.
• continue to expand character support.
• search blinkies in gallery.

technical details

• blinkies.cafe is open-source code.
• we pour fresh blinkies using imagemagick.
• blinkies.cafe is a node.js app using the express framework, with ejs template engine.
• it's built as a docker image using alpine linux.
• it's currently running on a debian virtual machine hosted by vultr.
• we create & edit blinkies using gimp and kolourpaint. you can probably spot the kolourpaint default palette in a lot of blinkies if you look!

blinkies.cafe started development circa 2021. we are proudly