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

RustApache-2.0 Last commit 6 hours ago graphite.art

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Last 24 hours: +7; stars
Last 7 days: +128; stars
Last 30 days: +410; stars
Total stars: 27,630; 27.2k a month ago
Forks: 1,292; 185 contributors

Star history

Last 12 weeks · weekly cumulative stars · computed from public GitHub star events

Momentum: #77 in Computer vision this week · +128 stars this week

Rank in its topics

Position among repos ranked in each topic (min. 20 stars gained)

Rank of GraphiteEditor/Graphite in each topic for today, this week and this month
Topic	Today	This week	This month
Computer vision	–	#77of 105	#111of 179
Rust	–	#205of 283	#270of 413

Health signals

Mixed signalsChecked Oct 15, 2026

Commit activity: Commits in 13 of the last 13 weeks 265 commits on the default branch in 90 days
Maintainers: 8 active maintainers Top author: 75% of the last 100 commits
Issue responsiveness: Median first response: 13 days 16 of 43 issues opened in 90 days are closed
Pull requests: 43 merged, 2 closed, 5 open Of the latest 50 opened in 90 days
Releases: Last release: 4 years ago 0 releases in the last 12 months
Project hygiene: License, CI; no security policy
OpenSSF Scorecard: Not scanned Unknown, not counted against the project

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README

README.md

Your procedural toolbox for 2D content creation

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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Demo.Compilation.Video.mp4

Support our mission ❤️

Graphite is 100% community built and funded. Please become a part of keeping the project alive and thriving with a donation if you share a belief in our mission:

Graphite strives to unshackle the creativity of every budding artist and seasoned professional by building the best comprehensive art and design tool that's accessible to all.

Mission success will come when Graphite is an industry standard. A cohesive product vision and focus on innovation over imitation is the strategy that will make that possible.

Screenshots

$Mandelbrot fractal filled with a noise pattern, procedurally generated and infinitely scalable$

Contributing/building the code

Are you a graphics programmer or Rust developer? Graphite aims to be one of the most approachable projects for putting your engineering skills to use in the world of open source. See instructions here for setting up the project and getting started.

License

Graphite's source code is dual-licensed under your choice of either the MIT license or the Apache License 2.0, at your option, unless otherwise noted within the repository. By submitting code for inclusion in the project, you agree to license your contributions under both licenses, and that you have the authority to do so.