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FigCraft

Interface design; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Figma, rebuilt in pure Rust.
Frames, auto layout, components and variants, vector networks, styles, variables and prototypes,
in a native app that opens instantly and works offline. Open source, and yours.

FigCraft on getartcraft.com · ArtCraft · All Crafting Apps

[!NOTE] ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life. Designers, illustrators, developers, musicians, game makers — if you make things, you're one of us. Come say hi on Discord.

Features · Agents · Under the hood · Get started · Crafting Apps · Discord

🎛️ Familiar by design

The toolbar, layers panel, Design panel, menus and shortcuts sit where your hands expect them. If you know Figma, you already know FigCraft.

⚡ Native and fast

A Rust engine with a persistent document model: edits touch only what changed, so creating a node in a 20,000-node file takes a fraction of a millisecond. No Electron, no web view.

🔌 Offline and private

Your files are plain .figcraft archives on your own disk. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP and PDF in and out; designs exported as the public REST API file JSON import too, with their prototypes and variables.

🤖 Agent-ready

Every menu item, tool and drag is a command, so the same engine runs from the UI, the CLI, a JSON control channel or an MCP server.

Features

Layouts that build themselves Auto layout in both directions, with wrap and grid (fixed, hug and `fr` tracks, cells that span), padding, gaps, alignment including text baselines, Hug / Fill / Fixed sizing, min and max sizes, absolute positioning, drag handles for padding and spacing right on the canvas, and arrow keys that move children through the flow, grid cells and nested frames. Constraints and layout grids for everything else.	Components that scale Main components, instances with overrides that survive edits, component sets with variants, properties, swap instance, detach, reset overrides and go to main component, and an Assets panel with live thumbnails, search and drag-to-canvas into frames and auto layout. Local styles and variables (colour, number, string, boolean) with modes, aliases and scopes, edited in a Variables table and bound to fills, strokes, effects, layout grids and instance properties. Fills, strokes, effects and layout grids reorder by dragging their rows.
Vectors without compromise Real vector networks: the Pen and Pencil tools, vector edit mode with its own tools (pen that extends and branches paths, bend, paint bucket fills for any closed area, lasso, cut), point panel with handle mirroring and per-point corner radius, join, split and heal-on-delete, the shape builder (click or drag across the regions of overlapping shapes to merge them, Alt to remove them), boolean groups (union, subtract, intersect, exclude), flatten, outline stroke, arrowheads, dashes, per-side strokes and variable width strokes (width profile presets, and a Variable width tool that drags width points along the path). Rectangles with smooth (squircle) corners, polygons, stars and arcs.	Paints and effects Solid, linear, radial, angular and diamond gradients with on-canvas handles, image fills (fill, fit, crop, tile) with adjustments and presets, multiple fills and strokes, every blend mode, drop and inner shadows (spread offsets the outline exactly), layer and background blur, noise (mono, duo, multi), texture and glass (refraction, dispersion, frost, light), masks. Files are sRGB or Display P3, with exports tagged with the file's colour profile.
Type that sets beautifully Text edited in place on the canvas (with inline IME composition), mixed styles within a paragraph, auto width and auto height, line height, letter and paragraph spacing, decoration, case, lists, OpenType features, variable font axes and text styles, right-to-left and mixed-direction text (Arabic, Hebrew) with the Unicode bidi algorithm, shaped with HarfRust and the open fonts from craft-fonts plus your system fonts.	Prototype and hand off Connections, triggers, actions and Smart Animate-style transitions, flows, a presentation view with device frames and a live preview pane. Alt to measure distances and padding on the canvas, Inspect mode with measurements, annotations, a ready-for-dev list and code (CSS, HTML, React, SwiftUI, Compose) where components take their properties as parameters, comment threads pinned to frames (replies, @mentions, reactions, read state) and named version history. Export any layer at any scale to PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG or PDF.

Built for agents

Every menu item, tool and gesture runs a command from one registry of 400+ commands. The UI, the CLI, the JSON control channel and the MCP server all call the same commands, so anything you can click, a script or an AI agent can do too.

# Headless: render and export
figcraft-cli render landing.figcraft -o landing.png --scale 2
figcraft-cli export landing.figcraft -o out/ --format svg

# Run a script of commands without a window
figcraft-cli run build-card.json --out card.figcraft

# Every command, with its parameters
figcraft-cli commands --filter autoLayout

# Let an agent drive it over MCP (headless, or attached to the running app)
figcraft-cli mcp
figcraft-cli mcp --attach 47800

The desktop app also offers a loopback-only control channel (figcraft --control <port>) for inspecting UI state, driving tools with pointer and key events, and taking screenshots. See docs/control-protocol.md, docs/mcp.md and docs/cli.md.

Under the hood

Engine first: a pure-data document model and a command engine, with a thin, swappable egui UI on top. Layering is checked at build time across the workspace crates (cargo xtask layers).
Persistent data: the document lives in an immutable ordered map, so undo snapshots are cheap and layout, component sync and text measurement only revisit what changed.
Its own renderer: tiny-skia on every core for the canvas and exports, with layer blending, effects and masks; booleans from linesweeper, geometry from kurbo, text from skrifa and HarfRust.
Runs in the browser: the whole engine and UI compile to WebAssembly.
Never crashes: no unwrap, expect or panic in shipped code, enforced by clippy; commands run behind a guard so a bug fails one action, not your session.
Clean-room: implemented from public documentation and observed behaviour only. No proprietary code, file formats, icons or images.

Get started

git clone https://github.com/storytold/figcraft
cd figcraft
cargo run --release -p figcraft            # the desktop app
cargo test --workspace                     # the test suite
cargo xtask ci                             # fmt, clippy, tests, layering and asset checks

Fonts for the UI and the Text tool come from craft-fonts, cloned next to this repository (../craft-fonts); without it FigCraft falls back to your system fonts.

git clone https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts ../craft-fonts

For the web build, install trunk and run cargo xtask wasm.

New contributors and AI agents: start with AGENTS.md, then docs/.

Installers for macOS (universal, signed and notarized), Windows (x64, x86 and arm64), Linux (AppImage, .deb, .rpm, Flatpak and tarball), FreeBSD and the web are attached to each GitHub release. Maintainers: docs/releasing.md explains how releases are built, signed and published.

[!IMPORTANT] Status: FigCraft is in early alpha. Most of Figma's editor surface exists in some form, and the main menu is almost fully wired (docs/parity.md), but that measures wiring, not behaviour. Multiplayer, comments, version history, plugins and Dev Mode depth are not there yet. The honest, area-by-area picture is in the roadmap. Expect rough edges and please file issues, or tell us what broke on Discord.

The Crafting Apps

FigCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to stand on its own.

App	What it's for	Code	Learn more
FigCraft	Interface design, components and prototypes · you are here	GitHub	Website
PhotoCraft	Image editing	GitHub	Website
VectorCraft	Vector illustration	GitHub	Website
FilmCraft	Video editing, color and sound	GitHub	Website
LightCraft	Photo library and raw development	GitHub	Website
PdfCraft	Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs	GitHub	Website
EffectCraft	Motion graphics and visual effects	GitHub	Website
DesignCraft	Page layout and publishing	GitHub	Website

And ArtCraft itself, our AI image and video studio for artists who want real control.

The Crafting Apps share the same conventions: clean-room and pure Rust, native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, in the browser via WebAssembly, and fully drivable by agents.

Come make things with us

Our Discord is where people who make things hang out: designers sketching their first app, developers who just want a button to look right, illustrators, filmmakers, type nerds, and plenty of people still working out what they like to make. Share what you're building, ask for help, tell us what's broken or what you wish FigCraft could do. You're welcome here.

discord.gg/artcraft · getartcraft.com · The Crafting Apps · FigCraft

License and credits

Every icon in FigCraft is drawn in code or made for this project, and bundled fonts, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.

The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as part of this repository and FigCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt. Forks and modified versions must remove them.

_{Figma is a trademark of Figma, Inc. FigCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Figma, Inc.; the name is used only to describe the workflows FigCraft is compatible with.}

_{Made by the ArtCraft team and community.}

16 KiB Raw Blame History

FigCraft

🎛️ Familiar by design

⚡ Native and fast

🔌 Offline and private

🤖 Agent-ready

Features

Layouts that build themselves

Components that scale

Vectors without compromise

Paints and effects

Type that sets beautifully

Prototype and hand off