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title = "Free online vector editor & procedural design tool"
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<h1 class="balance-text">Your <span>procedural</span> toolbox for 2D content creation</h1>
<p class="balance-text">Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics editor, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.</p>
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<a href="https://editor.graphite.rs/#demo/painted-dreams"><em>Painted Dreams</em></a> — Made using nondestructive boolean operations and procedural polka dot patterns
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Design for a magazine spread, a preview of the upcoming focus on desktop publishing
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<a href="https://editor.graphite.rs/#demo/isometric-fountain"><em>Isometric Fountain</em></a> — All layer stacks are represented, under the hood, by a nondestructive node graph
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Mandelbrot fractal filled with a noise pattern, procedurally generated and infinitely scalable
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Coming soon: this user interface mockup shows the raster image editing features planned for 2025
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<h1 class="feature-box-header">Software overview
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Starting life as a vector editor, Graphite is evolving into a generalized, all-in-one graphics toolbox that's built more like a game engine than a conventional creative app. The editor's tools wrap its node graph core, providing user-friendly workflows for vector, raster, animation, and beyond.
<a href="https://editor.graphite.rs" class="button arrow">Start creating
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## One app to rule them all
Stop jumping between programs. Upcoming tools will make Graphite a first-class content creation suite for many workflows, including:
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<span>Graphic Design</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 17" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Motion Graphics</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 13" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Image Editing</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 14" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Digital Painting</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 15" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Page Layout & Print</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 16" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>VFX Compositing</span>
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## Current features
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 0" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Vector editing tools</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 10" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Procedural workflow for graphic design</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 8" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Node-based layers</span>
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<span>Forever free and open source</span>
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Presently, Graphite is a lightweight offline web app with features primarily oriented around procedural vector graphics editing.
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## Upcoming features
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 4" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>All-in-one creative tool for all things 2D</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 5" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Fully-featured raster manipulation</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 7" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Windows/Mac/Linux native apps + web</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 6" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span>Live collaborative editing</span>
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<a href="/features#roadmap" class="button arrow">Roadmap
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## Desktop-first and web-ready
Where's the download? The web app is [currently live](https://editor.graphite.rs) and desktop apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux should be available in 2025.
Graphite is designed principally as a professional desktop application that is also accessible in a browser for quick, casual usage. It's built for speed with (nearly) no JavaScript. And regardless of platform, your work runs locally and privately on your own hardware. There is no server.
Engineering the tech for a native app distributed across three new platforms takes extra time. That's why supporting the web platform, which keeps up-to-date and reaches all devices, has been the initial target. For now, you can install the app as a PWA for a desktop-like experience.
Once it's ready to shine, Graphite's code architecture is structured to deliver native performance for your graphically intensive workloads on desktop platforms and very low overhead on the web thanks to WebAssembly and WebGPU, new high-performance browser technologies.
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<h2 class="heart">Support the mission
Free software doesn't grow on trees! Chip in your share of the (very real) development costs so you're not leaving others to pick up the tab. Becoming a member (or giving a one-time donation) lets you help maintain Graphite's sustainability and independence.
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<h1 class="feature-box-header">The power of proceduralism
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Graphite is the first and only graphic design package built for procedural editing — where everything you make is nondestructive.
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<h1 class="feature-box-header balance-text">Explore parametric possibilities
Save hours on tedious alterations and make better creative choices. Graphite lets you iterate rapidly by adjusting node parameters instead of individual elements.
Scatter circles with just a couple nodes...
Want them denser? Bigger? Those are sliders.
Want a different placement area? Just tweak the path.
Open this artwork and give it a try yourself.
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<h1 class="feature-box-header balance-text">Mix and morph anything
Nondestructive editing means every decision is tied to a parameter you can adjust later on. Use Graphite to interpolate between any states just by dragging value sliders.
Blend across color schemes. Morph shapes before they're scattered around the canvas. The options are endless.
Open this artwork and give it a try yourself.
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## Geared for generative pipelines
Graphite's representation of artwork as a node graph lets you customize, compose, reuse, share, and automate your content workflows:
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<span class="balance-text">Infinitely pan and zoom, export any resolution with no pixelation</span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 2" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span class="balance-text">Modular node-based pipelines for generative AI <em>(future)</em></span>
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<img class="atlas" style="--atlas-index: 11" src="https://static.graphite.rs/icons/icon-atlas-features__2.png" alt="" />
<span class="balance-text">Asset pipelines for studio production environments <em>(future)</em></span>
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<h1 class="feature-box-header">Stay in the loop
Subscribe to the newsletter for quarterly updates on major development progress. And follow along, or join the conversation, on social media.
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## Thanks!
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## Ready to dive in?
Get started with Graphite by following along to a hands-on quickstart tutorial.
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<span class="alternating-text">Co-createIdeateIllustrateGenerateIterate with Imaginate
**Imaginate** is a node powered by Stable Diffusion that makes AI-assisted art creation an easy, nondestructive process.
[Learn how](/learn/node-graph/imaginate) it works.
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<h2 class="balance-text">Add a touch of style
**Magically reimagine your vector drawings** in a fresh new style. Just place an Imaginate node between your layers and describe how it should end up looking.
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<blockquote class="balance-text require-polyfill">Watercolor painting of a light bulb gleaming with an exclamation mark inside
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## Work fast and sloppy
**Doodle a rough draft** without stressing over the details. Let Imaginate add the finishing touches to your artistic vision. Iterate with more passes until you're happy.
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<blockquote class="balance-text require-polyfill">Botanical illustration of California poppies wrapped around a circle
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