hevi

hevi [options] [file]

hevi (pronounced like "heavy") is a hex viewer similar to xxd or hexdump, with the added ability to parse structured file formats like ELF and PE executables and provide syntax highlighting for recognized sections. This makes it easier to visually identify headers, sections, and data regions in binary files.
Custom color palettes can be specified using standard ANSI colors or truecolor. The viewer displays offset addresses, hexadecimal values, and ASCII representation in a clean, colored layout.

Read-only viewer; cannot edit files. Format parsing is limited to supported file types (ELF, PE). Custom color palettes require a terminal with truecolor support for full fidelity.

hevi was created by Arnau478 and is written in Zig. It was designed to improve upon traditional hex viewers by adding structural awareness of common binary formats.

hexyl(1), xxd(1), hexdump(1), readelf(1)