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Graphite
Company blog · graphite.rs/blogprogrammingdesign
Graphite is the company blog at graphite.rs, writing about programming and design. Since 2022, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Graphite, an open-source Rust 2D design app that combines node-based procedural editing with a traditional editor. Its quarterly progress reports are cited for features and the roadmap.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2023-01-08
- Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-14
- Graphite (Rusty FOSS 2D graphics editor) year in review and preview of 20253 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-18
- Graphite progress report (Q1 2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-09
- Open source graphics editor in Rust – Graphite progress report (Q3 2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-15
What Hacker News says?
I'm going to hold on my Affinity as long as I can and try to integrate as much of my workflow to Inkscape as possible (even if UI feels like CorelDraw). Also keeping eye on: https://graphite.rs/
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on “Affinity Studio now free”Submitted Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app as a story · 785 points
HN discussionI was referring to the link posted to HN: https://graphite.rs/
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on “Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app”Submitted Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes as a story · 226 points
HN discussionDefinitely! And in fact, that is on our [roadmap]( https://graphite.rs/features/#:~:text=CAD%2Dlike%20constrain... ). Maybe you could get involved instead of making something separate.
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on “Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app”Submitted Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust as a story · 79 points
HN discussion(The submitted URL was https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/ but I converted the post to a Show HN per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and added the progress report link to the bottom of your text. I hope this helps!)
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on “Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app”Submitted Graphite 2D graphics editor built in Rust: Looking back on 2023 and what's next as a story · 14 points
HN discussionWe also collaborate with https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg . We were impressed by your work, https://github.com/rive-app and https://graphite.rs/
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on “3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine”Submitted [Open source Rust graphics editor] Graphite progress report (Q2 2024) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGraphite has raster editing in their roadmap[1], but afaik it's not really there yet. [1] https://graphite.rs/features/
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on “Inkscape 1.4”Submitted Graphite (Rusty FOSS 2D graphics editor) year in review and preview of 2025 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYou might look into https://graphite.rs/ . MS Paint is about my digital art interface complexity limit, but I do read Graphite's blog posts and their app sounds really attractive for more serious artists
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on “Inkscape 1.4”Submitted Graphite (Rusty FOSS procedural 2D design app) new feature demos from Q4 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne thing to look at (which I'm very intrigued by) is https://graphite.rs As a proof of concept about the possibility of a design tool with the potential to share information in this way it's intriguing. I'll also add that a major pain point of FL/OSS tools for me is that so many of them HEAVILY depend on local file descriptors which makes remote storage access a PITA.
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on “Inkscape 1.2 released”Submitted Graphite (open-source art editor) 2024 highlights as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI vaguely wondered if FreeHand would make an appearance in this thread. :) Two features that come to mind as IIRC being unique (as compared to Illustrator) were multi-page documents and multiple page size multi-page documents. Ideal for the complete standard set of company branded print documents: business card, "With Compliments" slip, and letterhead. :D Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and subsequent killing of (…
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on “Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?”Submitted Year in review: 2024 highlights and a peek at 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is also Graphite ( https://graphite.rs/ ) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).
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on “Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe”Submitted Open source graphics editor in Rust – Graphite progress report (Q3 2024) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA tool which looks at this sort of thing which was mentioned here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118159 but which didn't seem to get much traction is: https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ but it pretty much only works for JavaScript programmers and their friends (or folks interested in learning JavaScript). Other tools which I'd like to put forward as meriting discussion in this context include: -…
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on “Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps”Submitted Graphite progress report (Q1 2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOh, the code review system. I was worried that my favourite web svg editor got bought up: https://graphite.rs/
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on “Graphite is joining Cursor”Submitted Graphite – Blog – Distributed computing in the Graphene runtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIndeed, it's weird that nobody has brought node-based editing to regular image manipulation before our project, but that's our goal with Graphite. With the equally important goal of making the node aspect optional for users by building such capable tooling that it can abstract away the node graph for all conventional image editing use cases, allowing users to work purely with the WYSIWYG tools that secretly manage t…
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on “Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing”Submitted Graphite: In-development raster and vector 2D graphics editor that is FOSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://graphite.rs/ (still early in development) offers node-based editing, you may be interested in trying it.
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on “Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing”Introducing boolean path operations, a new gradient picker, layer locking, and more improvements. Also see the Q1 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q1-2024/ Graphite is a new open source, Rust-based 2D design app combining traditional graphics editors with node-based, non-destructive procedural design workflows to bring actual innovation back to the world of graphic design. Our missi…
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on “[Open source Rust graphics editor] Graphite progress report (Q2 2024)”Not sure which web-based spreadsheet app you're talking about, because there are many that do use these frameworks. Here's a PS/AI clone built with a Svelte frontend: https://graphite.rs
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on “Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components”Reminds me a bit of https://graphite.rs/
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on “Gimel Studio: Non-destructive, 2D image editor”
