Graphics & Design

Raster editor with layers, masks, and extensive plugins.

Digital painting and 2D animation tool with advanced brush engines.

Vector graphics editor using SVG as native format with professional tooling.

Font editor for creating and editing PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, UFO, and webfont formats with scripting (Python/FF).

Font editor focused on TTF, EOT, and SVG fonts with vector drawing tools and spacing/kerning tables.

2D vector animation with bones, gradients, filters, and timeline—aimed at film-quality motion without frame-by-frame painting.

2D animation production suite descended from Toonz, with scanning, compositing, and effects for traditional and digital pipelines.

Vector animation editor with Lottie and Telegram sticker export, keyframes, and tight Inkscape SVG workflow.

Godot-based pixel art editor with layers, animation timeline, palettes, and tile mode for games and sprites.

GPL fork spirit maintaining a free pixel-art editor lineage with drawing, animation, and scripting hooks.

Hundreds of image filters and operators—CLI, GIMP/Krita plug-ins, and Qt front-end for artistic and technical effects.

KDE Calligra vector drawing component for illustrations, diagrams, and SVG-centric artwork.

Professional vector illustration and prepress oriented editor with CMYK/ICC workflows and multiple format support.

Simple cross-platform image editor inspired by Paint.NET: layers, adjustments, and easy learning curve.

Structured diagram editor for flowcharts, ER diagrams, network maps, and UML-style shapes with export to many formats.

GUI prototyping desktop app: page templates, built-in UI stencils, linking, and export for early product design.

Native Linux UI/UX design tool built for mockups and interfaces with canvas, artboards, and Vala/GTK stack.

Web-based SVG editor for quick vector tweaks, diagram polish, and embedding in self-hosted pages.

Inkscape extension for embroidery: stitch planning, underlay, path to stitch conversion, and machine formats.

Procedural PBR material authoring with node graphs—textures for games and real-time engines.

3D texture painting aligned with Armory 3D: PBR painting on meshes with layers and live preview.

Storyboarding app with drawing layers, shot timing, export to Premiere/Final Cut, and optional AI assists (review settings).

Infinite-canvas drawing and whiteboard tool for notes and sketches—Godot-based, offline-friendly.

Vector graphics language for technical drawing: LaTeX integration, 3D, C++-like syntax for publication figures.

Extensible drawing editor for creating figures in PDF/EPS/SVG with LaTeX labels and geometric constraints.

2D animation editor emphasizing motion graphics with path effects, raster/vector mix, and video export.

Font editor built on UFO3, defcon, and fontTools—Pythonic workflow for glyph drawing and mastering.

Utility to read, convert, and manage color swatches (Adobe ASE, GIMP, OpenOffice, SVG, etc.).

Consistent open icon set, community fork of Feather Icons.

Icon toolkit and font/CSS packages for the web.

Digital painting app with infinite canvas and brush engines geared toward tablets.

Windows screenshot tool with editor, obfuscation, and export to file, clipboard, or Office.

Desktop publishing for brochures, PDFs, and print-ready layouts with CMYK workflows.

Open source comprehensive 2D content creation tool suite for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics — featuring node-based procedural editing

Gaphor is the simple modeling tool

Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. Born as an AI upscaling application, chaiNNer has grown into an extremely flexible and powerful programmatic image processing application.

Free, simple, and intuitive online database diagram editor and SQL generator.

ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and displaying images. It supports 200+ formats and offers powerful command-line tools and APIs for automation, scripting, and integration across platforms.

Automatically generates beautiful and easy-to-read ER diagrams from your database.

PixiEditor is a Universal Editor for all your 2D needs

LibreCAD is a cross-platform 2D CAD program written in C++17. It can read DXF/DWG files and can write DXF/PDF/SVG files. It supports point/line/circle/ellipse/parabola/spline primitives. The user interface is highly customizable, and has dozens of translations.

A free portable photo editor focused on pro-grade features, high performance, and maximum usability.

A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.

🎨 A powerful multi-end drawing board that brings together a lot of creative brushes to experience a whole new range of drawing effects!

Official electron build of draw.io

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform. This project is developed by Chia-wen Chang