The .act files only helped Photoshop. Affinity imports .ase and .aco;
Inkscape, GIMP, Krita and Aseprite want .gpl. tools/make_palettes.py now
generates all four plus swatch PNGs, for both the full 16 and the
11-colour portrait subset, all derived from the same PALETTE table shared
with kissaten.c so nothing can drift.
Colour names ride along in .gpl/.ase/.aco, so the swatches show up labelled
("skin", "lamp glow", "dusk violet") rather than as anonymous chips.
.ase output verified by reading it back and checking all 11 colours
round-trip exactly.
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Magnific's SVG export is flat-shaded vector (~550 solid-fill paths, 6
gradients), which converts to pixel art cleanly. tools/svg2portrait.py
rasterises at 16x the target via qlmanage, then takes the most common
colour per 16x16 block — a true pixelate with no blending — and maps to
the 11-colour portrait palette.
Measured on Aki: 19 colours after pixelate, 10 after palette, visually
near-identical. So the portrait palette is sufficient for this art.
Contrast with the bitmap route this replaces: a 48x48 PNG resized in
Photoshop had 1330 unique colours in 2304 pixels, because bicubic
resampling turns flat regions into gradients. Quantising that speckled
badly across the blazer and background.
Also adds tools/pixtool.py — dependency-free PNG decode/encode (no Pillow
on this machine) plus the palette table shared with kissaten.c.
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