Year in pixels: a whole year of feelings on one screen

A year in pixels is a grid where every day is one small square, colored by how that day felt. Fill it in over time and a year of moods becomes a single, quiet image.

Why a picture helps

Numbers in a list are hard to feel. A grid is not. You see the warm stretches and the harder seasons at a glance, without reading a single word. Patterns that hide in daily life show up as texture.

How to read it without judging

The grid is a record, not a report card. A run of darker squares is not a failure, it is a season you lived through. Look for shape and rhythm, not for a score to beat.

What it quietly teaches

Over months you notice that hard patches end. Bright days return. The grid becomes gentle proof of something that is easy to forget in the middle of a bad week: nothing has stayed the same the whole way down.

One square a day. By the end of the year, you are holding a map of it.