fontra/fontra 💎 hidden gem
A typeface editor that runs in a browser against a folder on your own machine, built variable-font-first.
storytold/photocraft
A free picture editor that opens Photoshop files and copies Photoshop's layout, ten days old and self-described as an early test version.
googlefonts/fontc 💎 hidden gem
Compiles font source drawings into finished OpenType and TrueType font files, written in Rust to be fast.
googlefonts/gftools 💎 hidden gem
The build and packaging scripts used to prepare a font family for publication.
charmbracelet/freeze
Makes a clean image of code or terminal output from the command line, with syntax colouring.
fonttools/fontbakery 💎 hidden gem
It runs a long quality checklist against a font file and prints every fault it finds.
Yqnn/svg-path-editor
A web page for editing the path data inside an SVG by dragging its points, with the work done in the browser.
d2lang/d2
A short text file becomes a finished diagram, so a picture can be kept beside the code and reviewed like code.
maplibre/maputnik 💎 hidden gem
A visual editor for the design of a vector map, which otherwise means editing a long settings file by guesswork.
tldraw/tldraw
A React software development kit for infinite-canvas applications, with a complete editor and optional real-time collaboration.
AykutSarac/jsoncrack.com
It draws a JSON, YAML, XML or CSV file as a diagram you can zoom around and search.
catppuccin/catppuccin
A single pastel colour scheme, in four shades, ported by hand into several hundred separate programs.
iconify/iconify
One way of writing icon names that reaches more than 200 icon sets and about 300,000 icons.
excalidraw/excalidraw
A whiteboard in the browser for quick hand-drawn diagrams, with live editing and no account.
upscayl/upscayl
A desktop program that enlarges a picture and invents the missing detail, entirely on your own machine.
GraphiteEditor/Graphite
A browser-based 2D graphics editor whose node-based engine keeps every step of a drawing editable afterwards.
jgraph/drawio
The diagram editor behind diagrams.net, which runs entirely in the browser and can be self-hosted.
hunvreus/basecoat
The shadcn/ui look as plain CSS classes plus a little JavaScript, so any server-rendered stack can use it without React.
argyleink/open-props
CSS custom properties for spacing, colour, shadows and easing — design tokens without a framework.
fontsource/fontsource
Self-hosted open-source fonts as npm packages, split by weight and subset — including cyrillic.
lucide-icons/lucide
~1,600 icons on one 24px grid at one stroke weight — the cheapest way to stop looking like four separate afternoons.
onlook-dev/onlook
Click an element in a live preview, nudge the padding, and it writes the change back into the React source file.
penpot/penpot
A Figma you can self-host, storing work in SVG and CSS rather than a proprietary binary.
shadcn-ui/ui
Not a library you install — a folder of accessible React components you own, copied into your repo.
storybookjs/storybook
Every component rendered on its own, in every state, including the states you never remember to open.
GrapesJS/grapesjs
Drag-and-drop builder for landing pages and, through its newsletter preset, email-safe table HTML.
pH-7/Thumbnails-Maker 💎 hidden gem
Tiny template-based desktop thumbnail composer — 1280x720 grids, signed Mac build, opens and closes in two minutes.
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