GraphiteEditor/Graphite
Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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The project lists 185 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #44 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 1, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Graphite is a free, open source 2D graphics editor focused on vector and raster content creation with nondestructive, node-based procedural editing workflows.
- Built in Rust, it features a node graph core enabling vector, raster, photo editing, motion graphics, and plans for desktop publishing and VFX compositing.
- Its strengths include a comprehensive, game-engine-like architecture and procedural design; limitations may include alpha stage status and evolving feature set.
- With over 20,000 stars and active community channels, Graphite shows strong adoption and interest as a modern, innovative graphics tool.
- Ideal for graphic designers, digital artists, and creative coders seeking a versatile, open source alternative for procedural 2D content and motion graphics.
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics engine, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.
Having begun life as a vector editor, Graphite continues 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, and beyond. Photo editing, motion graphics, digital painting, desktop publishing, and VFX compositing are additional competencies on the planned roadmap making Graphite into a highly versatile content creation tool.
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Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,067 stars over 90 days across 27 snapshot days; best day +26 on Sep 4.
Forks
1.3K+86
Open issues
457-105
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| mrdoob/three.js | 118.1K | +573 | 75 | 11 days ago |
| GraphiteEditor/Graphite | 27.8K | — | 35 | — |
| playcanvas/engine | 17.2K | — | 64 | 23 days ago |
| CadQuery/cadquery | 6.1K | — | 47 | 140 days ago |
| Category median | 52.6K | +1.9K | 64 | — |
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