OpenPencil

Open-source, AI-native design editor. Figma alternative built from scratch with full .fig file compatibility.

Status: Active development. Not ready for production use.

Features

• CanvasKit (Skia WASM) renderer — same rendering engine as Figma
• Figma .fig file import — Kiwi binary codec with Zstd decompression
• Figma clipboard interop — copy/paste between OpenPencil and Figma
• Vector networks — full Figma-compatible vertex/segment/region model, not SVG paths
• Auto-layout — Yoga WASM engine, supports all Figma layout modes
• Pen tool — click-to-place vertices, bezier tangent dragging, close/open paths
• Inline text editing — CanvasKit Paragraph API with Inter font
• Undo/redo — inverse command pattern across all operations
• Snap guides — edge/center snapping with rotation awareness
• Color picker — HSV area + hue/alpha sliders + hex input

Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
UI	Vue 3, VueUse, Reka UI
Styling	Tailwind CSS 4
Rendering	CanvasKit (Skia WASM)
Layout	Yoga WASM
File format	Kiwi binary (vendored fork) + Zstd (fzstd) + ZIP (fflate)
Color	culori
Desktop	Tauri v2
Testing	Playwright (E2E visual regression), bun:test (unit)
Tooling	Vite 7, oxlint, oxfmt, typescript-go

Getting Started

bun install
bun run dev        # http://localhost:1420

Scripts

bun run dev         # Vite dev server
bun run build       # Production build
bun run check       # Lint + typecheck
bun run test        # E2E visual regression tests
bun run test:update # Regenerate screenshot baselines
bun run test:unit   # Unit tests (scene graph, ~15ms)
bun run tauri dev   # Desktop app (requires Rust toolchain)

Project Structure

src/
  components/     Vue SFCs (canvas, panels, toolbar, color picker)
  composables/    Canvas input, keyboard shortcuts, rendering
  stores/         Editor state (Vue reactivity)
  engine/         Scene graph, renderer, layout, clipboard, undo, vector, snap
  kiwi/           Figma binary format (Kiwi codec, .fig import, protocol)
    kiwi-schema/  Vendored kiwi-schema (TypeScript source from evanw/kiwi)
  types.ts        Shared types (GUID, Color)
  constants.ts    UI colors, default fills, thresholds
desktop/          Tauri v2 (Rust + config)
tests/
  e2e/            Playwright visual regression tests
  engine/         bun:test unit tests
  helpers/        Test utilities (canvas interactions, Figma CDP)

Figma Compatibility

OpenPencil reads Figma's native .fig files (ZIP → Kiwi binary → Zstd) and supports bidirectional clipboard copy/paste. The Kiwi codec includes a vendored fork of kiwi-schema with support for Figma's sparse field IDs. Vector data uses the reverse-engineered vectorNetworkBlob binary format for full round-trip fidelity.

License

MIT