
VectorCraft
Open-source, clean-room take on the Adobe Illustrator workflow, built in pure Rust for desktop and web.
VectorCraft is a vector illustration app that mirrors the Adobe Illustrator workflow — the Pen and Direct Selection tools, Pathfinder curve booleans, the Appearance panel with live effects, clipping masks and text with full character controls — as a free, open-source desktop app written in pure Rust by the ArtCraft team.
Performance is a selling point: rendering is multithreaded SIMD off the UI thread, and a document with 20,000 shapes redraws in roughly 27 milliseconds. Curve booleans are exact rather than approximate, so Illustrator-style Pathfinder operations succeed where other tools fail, and unlimited undo is built on structural snapshots. Documents live in an open, documented JSON format, and interchange is first-class: SVG and SVGZ both ways, PDF and PDF-compatible .ai files import and export, plus PNG, JPEG and WebP raster exports and an Export for Screens workflow.
VectorCraft runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux with the same UI in the browser, dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0, and — like its siblings — every menu item, tool gesture and panel can be driven from the command line, a JSON control channel or an MCP server for agentic workflows.








