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Install clip with Homebrew
Create high-quality charts from the command-line. Version 0.7 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Create high-quality charts from the command-line
Project links
Commands and aliases
- clip
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Project history and usage
clip is the command line illustration processor, a C++17 charting and data-driven illustration tool that turns text descriptions into SVG output. Its package-manager identity is a small but unusually well-starred command-line visualization tool rather than a clipboard utility, despite the formula name.
Project history
The official README says the project began in 2011 under the name FnordMetric and originally included data storage and transformation facilities. Over time, the data-processing parts were removed, leaving the plotting and illustration engine, and the project was renamed to clip to avoid stale search results around the older name.
The current repository presents clip as both an open-source command-line program and software library for creating charts and other data-driven illustrations. The README points users to clip-lang.org for full documentation, examples, and installation notes.
Adoption history
GitHub repository metadata recorded the project as created on 2011-09-16 and showed more than 5,000 stars and several hundred forks when checked for this enrichment run. Homebrew packages the stable 0.7 release from the upstream GitHub tag and reported hundreds of on-request installs over the preceding year.
How it is used
Users write a .clp-style text description of a plot or diagram and run commands such as `clip --export output.svg example.clp`. The README examples emphasize line charts, SVG output, C++17 source builds, and dependencies such as cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fmtlib, and cmake.
Why package nerds care
clip is notable in package indexes because it is a compact Unix-style chart renderer with its own declarative language, sitting closer to gnuplot, Graphviz, and ggplot-inspired grammar systems than to generic clipboard tools. For Homebrew users, the package preserves a command-line visualization niche that is otherwise often handled by heavier language runtimes.
Timeline
- 2011: Project starts as FnordMetric according to the official README.
- 2011-09-16: GitHub repository is created, according to GitHub repository metadata.
- 2020: README copyright and repository metadata reflect the modern clip name and C++ charting focus.
- 2026: Homebrew formula tracks stable release 0.7 from the official GitHub tag archive.
Related projects
- The official README names The Grammar of Graphics and ggplot2 as conceptual influences for plot-element structure, and CSS as an influence on syntax and styling concepts.
- The rendering stack relies on freetype and harfbuzz, placing clip in the same practical ecosystem as other precise SVG and text-rendering tools.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 7 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
clip | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.7
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.7
https://github.com/asmuth/clip
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:clip |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.7 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/clip |
| Homepage | https://github.com/asmuth/clip |
| Repository | https://github.com/asmuth/clip |
| Upstream docs | https://clip-lang.org/ |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://github.com/asmuth/clip/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.tar.gz |
| Dependencies | cairo, fmt, fontconfig, freetype, fribidi, harfbuzz, libpng |
| Build dependencies | cmake, pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | clip |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 5 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Conflicts With |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment