Blinkie Maker
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Example blinkie
How to make a blinkie
- Type your text. It can be up to 24 characters.
- Pick the background, text and light colors.
- Choose how the border lights move, and add a heart or star if you like.
- Pick a size and press Download GIF.
What is a blinkie?
A blinkie is a tiny animated badge, 150 x 20 pixels, with pixel text inside a border of blinking lights. Blinkies were all over profile pages and forum signatures in the 2000s, and people still collect them on personal websites. Here you make one with your own words and colors.
Blinkie settings
Border lights: Blink swaps every other light on and off. Chase lights one light in three and runs them around the border.
Colors: the text color is also used for the icon and the thin outer border. A light that is off shows a darker shade of the background, or a lighter one if the background is very dark.
Icon puts a heart or a star at both ends of the text.
Size: 150 x 20 px is the classic blinkie size. The bigger sizes are the same pixels scaled up 2, 3 or 4 times, so they stay sharp.
Fitting your text
The pixel font has letters, numbers and common punctuation. Accents are dropped and emoji are left out. Capital letters are wider than small ones, so a long line in capitals can run out of room, and anything that does not fit is cut off. Set Icon to None to give the text more room.