# 1-bit Paint Program: motion graphics style

> A 1-bit paint program text animation: the pencil traces the word, the bucket floods each letter with a dither pattern and a brush adds a bold shadow. Marching ants, a tool palette and pure black and white; for retro-tech and design-history themes.

- Category: [Retro Computing & Games](https://aimotions.art/category/retro-computing-games/)
- Also known as: 1-bit paint, black and white paint program, dither pattern art, early 80s paint program, monochrome pixel drawing, retro drawing app, bitmap paint tool
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Calm · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/one-bit-paint-app/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/one-bit-paint-app/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Recreate an early-80s black-and-white paint program drawing [TEXT]. Strictly one-bit: pure black and white pixels, grays only as 8×8 dither patterns. A menu bar, a window with a horizontally striped title bar, a two-column tool palette of tiny pixel icons on the left (selection, lasso, hand, text, paint bucket, spray can, brush, pencil, line, eraser, shapes) with the active tool inverted, and a strip of fill patterns along the bottom. A pixel cursor picks the pencil and traces the outline of [TEXT] in rounded heavy letters, one pixel wide; then the paint bucket floods each letter instantly with a different pattern (checker, bricks, diagonals, weave, scales); the brush paints a solid offset drop shadow; finally a selection rectangle is dragged around the word and its dashed border crawls as marching ants. Clear the canvas and repeat.
```

## Visual DNA

- Strict 1-bit black and white, no gray, only 8×8 dither patterns
- Tool palette with an inverted selected tool and a pattern palette
- Striped title bar, menu bar and a gray dithered desktop
- Pencil outline trace, instant bucket fills, brushed drop shadow
- Marching-ants selection rectangle crawling around the word
- Pixel arrow cursor that swaps to the active tool icon

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: 1-bit Paint Program, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/one-bit-paint-app/