Open source Figma alternatives

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers

“Insane work. For sure the middle ground between Figma and Cursor thats been missing. Happy to be powering Fast Applies in Onlook!”

OpenPencil – AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative

“Penpot is the established alternative to Figma. OpenPencil compared themselves with Penpot here: One thing to add is that the ecosystem does provide a desktop version for PenPot, but the comparison does not acknowledge that. Still good they put in the effort to give a…”

OpenPencil: Open-source vector design tool controlled by AI Agents

“Hey! I'm the creator of OpenPencil, and I'm super excited to share it with you today. We are entering the era of AI Agents, but our design tools are still stuck in the GUI era. We are constantly downloading "final_v9.fig" and manually clicking to tweak UI elements. I wanted to…”

Why is Excalidraw so good?

“A lot of people use things like Excalidraw also on their tablets. (mostly iOS and Android) How is this helping? This whole cosmopolitan-fanboy'ism is completely ignoring my initial statement. What are you trying to bring to the table here? Sorry if I sound harsh, but you are…”

I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

“I want to love Excalidraw but it can be really frustratingly mediocre a lot of the time. For example, I'm constantly retrying to rescale something and then an arrow repositions or resizes itself, which reveals some kind of mistake in the underlying data model. Or undo/redo just…”

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

“> The spirit of Markdown is succinctly described on DF's Markdown project website. > "Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format." The third/fourth person to quote the original article while failing to acknowledge this paragraph from the…”

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

“Readable by humans is relative. Mermaid does not make it unreadable to some humans. Again, you are free to create an alternative that makes it more readable. Some could say that adding tables to markdown makes it unreadable. There are lot of extensions for markdown that adds…”

Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

“Krita is a painting application. Graphite is a vector editing application. There is currently no overlap between the two apps. We intend to eventually build a painting application workflow, but that isn't something we're focused on yet and we'll likely prioritize other area…”

Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

“Yes, and furthermore, Inkscape doesn't even have its own file format. You save your work to SVG. So the entire program is intrinsically tied to the SVG spec, and won't ever expand beyond that. It wouldn't be a good base to try and extend into a highly generalized program meeting…”

Add parse options to include / exclude nodes by types

“There are nodes or parts that we may or may not want to render: - code blocks - images - ... We need an option for the parser (markmap-lib) to know whether a node should be included in the result.”

Fit graph in resized svg

“Hi, I've been working markmap for a couple of days now and I'm unable to find a good way to fit the graph into a resized sag without doing dirty code. Can you help me out? My Idea: * Load an arbitrary markdown content * Use available width completely * Adjust height according to…”

Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

“> Importantly, Penrose's vision is that experts will author libraries of domains and styles, and end-users need only express the substance of their diagrams (i.e. the three lines of code above). In that case, would it be a good idea to start the tutorial with some predefined…”

Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

“Yeah :( To be honest, I think we got a bit overeager about this one, since none of us on the project are chemistry experts. At least for the front page, we should probably replace that with a different diagram from our registry. I think this is actually a fairly deep issue with…”

Application terminates gracefully

“## Current Behavior ``` the figma document contains around 11488 elements Exiting the application gracefully after having encountered an error... AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: fallback due to slow official assert otherwise at g…”