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CTAN update: TikZlings

Date: March 25, 2025 8:12:40 AM CET
Samcarter submitted an update to the TikZlings package. Version: 2.3 2025-03-23 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures Announcement text:
### New - Cookie, the dog - New options `randomhead` and `randomaccessories`. Basically the same as `\randomhead` and `\randomaccessories`, but no longer require `\shufflethings` ### Changed - added synonyms for eye/eyes, pupil/pupils, leg/legs, arm/arms, ear/ears, foot/feet, wing/wings, hand/hands, antenna/antennas, whisker/whiskers, paw/paws, toe/toes, tooth/teeth, etc. - replaced self-baked hooks with latex hooks: `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/background}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/belly}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/body}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/foreground}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/background}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/body}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/clothing}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/hair}`, `\NewHook{tikzlings/hat}` and `\NewHook{tikzlings/foreground}` ### Fixed - bounding box of coati
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzlings/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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TikZlings – A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

A collection of packages for drawing cute little animals and similar creatures using TikZ.

Currently, the following TikZlings are included:

  • anteater
  • bat
  • bear
  • bee
  • bug
  • cat
  • chicken
  • coati
  • dog
  • elephant
  • hippo
  • koala
  • marmot
  • meerkat
  • mole
  • mouse
  • owl
  • panda
  • penguin
  • pig
  • rhino
  • sheep
  • sloth
  • snowman
  • squirrel
  • wolf

These little drawings can be customized in many ways.

PackageTikZlings
Version2.3 2025-03-23
Maintainersamcarter

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