What does the word aseprite mean?

[Expensive_Milk]

@aseprite what is the meaning of this word?

[vegeta897]

The origin of the name is explained on this page.

[dacap]

Hi there also explained here:

Meaning of the name "Aseprite"?

Actually the “ASE” prefix came from “Allegro Sprite Editor,” the old name of Aseprite. Then I renamed to an easily googleable term (a word with 0 results on Google), and aseprite.org domain was available, so “Aseprite” was a great candidate for the new name of the program (+ keeping the old name as a prefix). P.S. Allegro was a game development library used to program ASE from the very beginning (this year Allegro was finally removed from the Linux port, and now we use our own code to h…