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The TikZpingus package

The TikZpingus package

Version 1.4 (2026/02/27) · Florian Sihler

Unofficial HTML version by Dominik Peters · Package source

Build a pingu

Pick a body, pose, face and outfit, then copy the TikZ code or download the drawing.

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TikZ code

\pingu

Contents

Getting started

  1. Visual overviews
  2. 1Introduction
  3. 2Usage
  4. 2.1Using the Coordinates
  5. 2.2Anchors and Placement
  6. 2.3Colors
  7. 2.4Setting the defaults
  8. 2.5Changing the wings
  9. 2.6Changing the eyes
  10. 2.7Changing other components
  11. 2.8Predefined Styles
  12. 2.9Randomness
  13. 2.10Extras
  14. 2.11Wing-Items
  15. 2.12Clothing
  16. 3A Collection of Examples
  17. BLarger Examples

AFull reference

  1. Key and command index

A.1Penguin keys

  1. A.1.1Anchors and Placement
  2. A.1.2The Feet
  3. A.1.3The Body
  4. A.1.4The Size
  5. A.1.5The Eyes
  6. A.1.6The Wings
  7. A.1.7The Hair
  8. A.1.8The Bill

A.2Drawing styles

A.3Extras

  1. A.3.1The heart
  2. A.3.2The vampire teeth
  3. A.3.3The tie
  4. A.3.4The sheriff star
  5. A.3.5The bowtie
  6. A.3.6The cup
  7. A.3.7The medal
  8. A.3.8The rectangular medal
  9. A.3.9The eye patches
  10. A.3.10The monocle
  11. A.3.11The pants
  12. A.3.12The glow
  13. A.3.13The eye frame
  14. A.3.14The glasses
  15. A.3.15The rounded glasses
  16. A.3.16The devil horns
  17. A.3.17The devil wings
  18. A.3.18The belt
  19. A.3.19The bunny hears
  20. A.3.20The head band
  21. A.3.21The rook
  22. A.3.22The halo
  23. A.3.23The strawhat
  24. A.3.24The hat
  25. A.3.25The graduate cap
  26. A.3.26The space helmet
  27. A.3.27The mitra
  28. A.3.28The witch hat
  29. A.3.29The conical hat
  30. A.3.30The cap
  31. A.3.31The construction helmet
  32. A.3.32The detective cap
  33. A.3.33The drums
  34. A.3.34The crown
  35. A.3.35The princess crown
  36. A.3.36The cake hat
  37. A.3.37The pumpkin hat
  38. A.3.38The jack o lantern
  39. A.3.39The bee
  40. A.3.40The horse
  41. A.3.41The VR-headset
  42. A.3.42The headphones
  43. A.3.43The santa hat
  44. A.3.44The santa beard
  45. A.3.45The snowball
  46. A.3.46The basket
  47. A.3.47The wool hat
  48. A.3.48The deer hat
  49. A.3.49The flip flops
  50. A.3.50The shoes
  51. A.3.51The sneaker
  52. A.3.52The mask
  53. A.3.53The blush
  54. A.3.54The banner

A.4Wing items

  1. A.4.1The lollipop
  2. A.4.2The fish
  3. A.4.3The flower
  4. A.4.4The cane
  5. A.4.5The hand cast
  6. A.4.6The sign post
  7. A.4.7The lightsaber
  8. A.4.8The lightstaff
  9. A.4.9The broom
  10. A.4.10The guitar
  11. A.4.11The flag
  12. A.4.12The present
  13. A.4.13The staff
  14. A.4.14The hammer
  15. A.4.15The drum stick
  16. A.4.16The microphone
  17. A.4.17The magnifier
  18. A.4.18The sword
  19. A.4.19The plank
  20. A.4.20The laptop
  21. A.4.21The devil fork
  22. A.4.22The horse

A.5Clothes

  1. A.5.1The cloak
  2. A.5.2The shirt
  3. A.5.3The second shirt
  4. A.5.4The scarf

Internals

  1. CThe Internals
  2. C.1The Source at a Glance
  3. C.2How a Penguin is Drawn
  4. C.3Keys, Styles and Defaults
  5. C.4General Commands
  6. C.5The Eyes
  7. C.6The Bill
  8. C.7The Body Type
  9. C.8The Feet
  10. C.9The Wings
  11. C.10Extras
  12. C.11Anchors and Placement
  13. C.12The Bends

Motivation

For my slides at university, I started to use the famous -package tikzducks a few years ago. Yet, it seemed somewhat of a necessity to extend the range of available “cute” animals in . Therefore, I started writing this package: tikzpingus.1
Please note: While tikzpingus is certainly inspired by tikzducks, it does offer a different set of features (e.g., multiple wing positions, …).
I would be happy for any feedback or issues on the tikzpingus-GitHub.

1 Why “pingu” and not “pengu”? Well, this is the third try on achieving cute penguins without using any templates or vector formats as a basis. As a German, the short form “pingu” was merely a typo that originated from the German word “pinguin” for “penguin”. It somewhat stuck…