
Tux Paint's normal interface is split into five sections: The brightly colored interface, sound effects and cartoon mascot ( Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel) are meant to engage children.
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The user interface is meant to be intuitive, and utilizes icons, audible feedback and textual hints to help explain how the software works.

Tux Paint stands apart from typical graphics editing software (such as GIMP or Photoshop) that it was designed to be usable by children as young as 3 years of age.

It is written in the C programming language and uses various free and open source helper libraries, including the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), and has since been made available for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Android, Haiku, and other platforms.

Tux Paint was initially created for the Linux operating system, as there was no suitable drawing program for young children available for Linux at that time.
