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    OrangeHRM provides a world-class HRIS experience and offers everything you and your team need to be that HR hero you know that you are.

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    Font Awesome

    Font Awesome

    Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog

    Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts
    Downloads: 164 This Week
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    Penpot

    Penpot

    The first open source design and prototyping tool

    Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. What will designers and developers find in Penpot? - Powerful UI tool for the team. All stakeholders can access a complete set of interactive prototypes, design systems, components, feedback loop and pixel designs. - Design and development collaborate for real. Penpot brings both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to the same workspace. - Open Standards for the design work. This means zero vendor lock-in and high interoperability. - Unique Flex Layout that allows you to create flexible designs that can adapt automatically
    Downloads: 77 This Week
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    slick

    slick

    The last carousel you'll ever need

    slick is an open source, responsive carousel plugin that offers a great number of breakpoints, CSS3 transitions, touch events and so much more. It creates fully responsive, customizable and mobile-friendly carousels that can work with any html element. Everything you’ll ever need for your carousel, slick can achieve quickly and easily. It features a comprehensive range of settings, events, methods and more so you can build a carousel in exactly the way you want. It supports IE8+ as well as most modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari). See it in action in demos on http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    HTML5 Boilerplate

    HTML5 Boilerplate

    The web’s most popular front-end template

    HTML5 Boilerplate is a popular and professional front-end template that lets you build fast, robust and adaptable web sites or applications. It’s built with the combined knowledge and effort of hundreds of developers over a span of years, creating a powerful tool in one small package. HTML5 Boilerplate comes loaded with great features, such as HTML5 support, optimized Google Analytics snippet, jQuery and Modernizr, and so much more. It supports the latest and most popular browsers and does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you can code any way you want.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    DB Designer Fork
    DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. It integrates entity relationship design,front-end (you can run queries) and SQL exporting.DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, FireBird, SQLite and PostgreSQL.
    Downloads: 103 This Week
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    Ant Design

    Ant Design

    A UI Design Language and React UI library

    Ant Design is an enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library that provides high quality React components out of the box. It’s considered one of the best React UI libraries for enterprises, with a whole package of design resources and development tools.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.
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    Downloads: 115 This Week
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    Image-Map

    Image-Map

    Responsive, dynamic image maps

    A native JavaScript solution for creating responsive image-maps that rerender on image or viewport changes.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Material design icons

    Material design icons

    The icon set from Google

    Material design icons is the icon set from Google, which follows the material design guidelines. These system icons are simple, modern and also delightful and beautifully crafted symbols that depict universal actions, items and concepts used commonly throughout a UI. All icons are available in a range of sizes, densities and themes, and have been optimized for beautiful display on all common platforms and display resolutions. The full set of icons can be viewed in the Material Icons Library, and are available in several formats and suitable for different types of projects. Developers can use them in their digital products for Android, iOS, and web; and designers in their mockups or prototypes.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Manage Properties Better For Free

    For small to mid-sized landlords and property managers

    Innago is a free and easy-to-use property management solution. Whether you have 1 unit or 1000, student housing, or commercial properties, Innago is built for you. Our software is designed to save you time and money, so you can spend more time doing the things that matter most.
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    Jetpack Compose Samples

    Jetpack Compose Samples

    Jetpack Compose samples

    Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs. Do more with less code and avoid entire classes of bugs, so code is simple and easy to maintain. Just describe your UI, and Compose takes care of the rest. As app state changes, your UI automatically updates. Compatible with all your existing code so you can adopt when and where you want. Iterate fast with live previews and full Android Studio support. Compose enables you to create beautiful apps with direct access to the Android platform APIs and built-in support for Material Design, Dark theme, animations, and more: “Compose has also solved more than declarative UI -- accessibility apis, layout, all kinds of stuff have been improved. There are fewer steps between the thing you want to make and actually making it” (Square).
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    PixiJS

    PixiJS

    The HTML5 Creation Engine

    PixiJS is a fast and lightweight 2D rendering library that lets you create rich, interactive graphics, cross platform applications, and HTML5 games even without prior knowledge of WebGL. It’s a fantastic tool for creating rich, interactive content and with built-in cross platform compatibility and graceful degradation, there’s less work for you and more space for fun and creativity! PixiJS works across all devices and is incredibly fast. If you want to create exceptional experiences without having to deal with dense, low level code, browser inconsistencies, WebGL API or device compatibility, PixiJS is for you! See some great examples and creations made with PixiJS in the official website: https://www.pixijs.com/
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Qfsm

    Qfsm

    A graphical Finite State Machine (FSM) designer.

    A graphical tool for designing finite state machines and exporting them to Hardware Description Languages, such as VHDL, AHDL, Verilog, or Ragel/SMC files for C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Lua code generation.
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    Downloads: 51 This Week
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    A fast and reliable tool, written in Java 8, for generating professional UML sequence diagrams from text. Supports actors, con-/destructors, threads, broadcasts, notes, and fragments. Can serve as a Javadoc taglet. Exports PDF, (E)PS, SVG, PNG, ... The source code is hosted at http://github.com/sdedit/sdedit
    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    CodeView

    CodeView

    Display code with syntax highlighting in native way

    CodeView helps to show code content with syntax highlighting in native way.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Telegram Monet

    Telegram Monet

    Create themes for Telegram using material 3 colors

    Create themes for Telegram using material 3 colors.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    SingleSkin

    SingleSkin

    Software for design single skin kites, speedgliders and paragliders

    All-in-one software for desing single skin paragliders like Ozone XXLite. Allow to modify wing shape, profile, settings. Allow to print sew templates with scale 1:1 in A4 or other small printer's formats. Export sew templates to DXF. Main code writen in Javascript, GUI writen in Visual C# 2010 Express.
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    Downloads: 45 This Week
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    Berry Free React Material UI

    Berry Free React Material UI

    Berry free react material admin template for faster web development

    Berry is a free Material UI admin dashboard template built with React. It is meant to provide the best possible User Experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages. It is a complete Dashboard Template that has easy and intuitive responsive design whether it is viewed on retina screens or laptops.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    iFrame Resizer

    iFrame Resizer

    Keep same and cross domain iFrames sized to their content

    Size cross domain iFrames to content with support for window/content resizing, and multiple iFrames. This library enables the automatic resizing of the height and width of both same and cross domain iFrames to fit their contained content. It provides a range of features to address the most common issues with using iFrames. Provides a range of page size calculation methods to support complex CSS layouts. Detects changes to the DOM that can cause the page to resize using MutationObserver. Detects events that can cause the page to resize (window resize, CSS animation and transition, orientation change and mouse events). Fixes in page links in iFrame and supports links between the iFrame and parent page. Works with ViewerJS to support PDF and ODF documents. The package contains two minified JavaScript files in the js folder. The first (iframeResizer.min.js) is for the page hosting the iFrames.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    This project provides a generic CDS (or ARINC 661 Server), coded in the Java language in order to facilitate the understanding of the ARINC 661 standard, prototype ARINC 661 concepts and architectures, etc… This project is managed by Dassault Aviation.
    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Bootstrap Simple Admin Template

    Bootstrap Simple Admin Template

    The most reliable HTML, CSS, and JavaScript simple admin template

    Bootstrap Simple Admin Template is a simple admin template packed with more UI components than any other admin themes, its exceptional user interface is perfectly crafted and advanced layout features are optimized to suit every modern web application project and highly responsive to serve from a Mobile-first to a Desktop screen.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    ML Manager 1.X

    ML Manager 1.X

    A modern, easy and customizable app manager for Android with Material

    A modern, easy and customizable APK extractor & app manager for Android that allows you to extract any installed and system app, mark them as favorite, share .apk files easily and much more.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Material Dashboard 2

    Material Dashboard 2

    Open Source Bootstrap 5 Material Design Admin

    The most complex and innovative Dashboard Made by Creative Tim. Check our latest Freebie Bootstrap 5 Dashboard with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design 2. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Material Dashboard 2 is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. We created many examples for pages like Sign In, Notifications, Profile, and so on. Just choose between a Basic Design, an illustration, or a cover and you are good to go. Material Dashboard 2 is built with over 60 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. All components can take variations in color, which you can easily modify using SASS files and classes.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Material Dashboard 2 React

    Material Dashboard 2 React

    React version of Material Dashboard by Creative Tim

    Material Dashboard 2 React is our newest free MUI Admin Template based on React. If you’re a developer looking to create an admin dashboard that is developer-friendly, rich with features, and highly customizable, here is your match. Our innovative MUI & React dashboard comes with a beautiful design inspired by Google's Material Design and it will help you create stunning websites & web apps to delight your clients. Fully Coded Elements Material Dashboard 2 React is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. All components can take variations in color, which you can easily modify using MUI styled() API and sx prop. You will save a lot of time going from prototyping to full-functional code because all elements are implemented.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Pinta

    Pinta

    Simple GTK# Paint Program

    Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. Use easy drawing tools to draw freehand, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and more. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Use Pinta in your language. Pinta is at least partially translated into over 55 languages. Don't be afraid to experiment, Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Use layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing. Like docked windows? No problem. Floating windows? No problem. You can even mix and match. Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License, see license-mit.txt for the MIT License. Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Salesforce Lightning Design System

    Salesforce Lightning Design System

    Salesforce Lightning design system

    Ready-to-use HTML and CSS UI elements provide the foundation for Salesforce experience development. Visual design values and attributes that ensure branding and UI consistency at scale. Design principles and best practices that guide beautiful, consistent, user-friendly product experiences. Easy-to-use tools help all Trailblazers optimize workflows and bring Salesforce ideas to life. Start building immediately, without worrying about detailed specs. SLDS lets you focus on the big picture to deliver the best possible user experience. Manage design at scale, with a living design system that evolves as needs change. SLDS keeps apps, interfaces, and tools consistent no matter how fast the system grows. SLDS saves time and energy, freeing designers and developers to focus on larger issues of usability and meaning. Standardized, reusable components support collaboration, reinforce branding, and provide a consistent look and user experience.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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Guide to Open Source Design Software

Open source design software is a type of program that allows you to create, edit, and manipulate graphic design elements. This type of software has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its ease of use, affordability, and versatility. It can be used for anything from logo creation and website design to 3D animation and video editing.

The primary advantage of open source software is that it is free for users to download and free to modify the underlying code. This makes it especially appealing for people who are just starting out with graphic design but don't have the funds to purchase expensive proprietary programs like Adobe Creative Suite or Corel Draw. Open source software also offers access to a wide variety of tools and features which can be invaluable for amateur designers as they start experimenting with different designs.

One downside to using open source design software is that these programs often lack the interface sophistication found in more expensive proprietary programs. While this usually isn't an issue when dealing with simple graphics such as logos or website layouts, complex projects or animations may require a more robust user experience offered by paid options in order to be completed effectively. Additionally, because open source programs are typically created by volunteer coders or small teams rather than large companies, updates and customer support services may not be as comprehensive as what you'd find with other types of software.

Nevertheless, open source design software remains one of the most accessible options available for anyone looking get into creating digital artwork on their own terms without breaking the bank in the process. By utilizing online tutorials and user forums devoted specifically towards helping novices learn how navigate these tools effectively, budding graphic designers can learn their craft at their own pace while having access a broad array of resources at minimal cost.

Features of Open Source Design Software

  • User Interface: Open source design software generally has an intuitive, easy-to-use user interface that allows users to quickly and easily access tools and features.
  • Annotation: Most open source design software offers annotation tools which allow users to annotate documents with comments or labels. Annotations can also be used to highlight important elements of the design.
  • Layout Tools: Many open source design programs have a variety of layout features, including grids, rulers, guides, alignment functions, and more. These features make it easy for designers to create well-structured documents without needing to calculate measurements manually.
  • Imaging Options: Open source designs software often comes with image editing capabilities such as filters, effects and other image manipulation tools that help designers edit images without having to use third party apps or plugins.
  • Typography Tools: Designers are able to adjust typefaces in open source design programs using a range of typography settings such as line spacing, kerning and font sizes.
  • Color Palettes: Designers can choose from a wide selection of predefined color palettes when working within most open source programs or create their own custom palettes as needed.
  • Plugins & Addons:Many open source programs offer additional functionality through plugins or addons that allow users to extend the existing feature set of the program according to their individual needs.

What Are the Different Types of Open Source Design Software?

  • Vector Graphics Editors: These open source design software programs allow users to create and manipulate vector graphics, which are useful for creating high-resolution images that can be scaled without losing quality. Common features include drawing tools, layers, color palettes, grids, and text boxes.
  • Digital Painting Programs: These open source design software enable users to paint digitally using a range of brushes and effects. Features typically include canvases of various sizes and resolutions, a variety of brush options, blending modes, layers, gradients, filters and other elements.
  • 3D Modeling Software: These open source design software programs allow for the construction of 3D models from basic shapes such as cubes or cylinders through to more complex structures. Features may include mesh editing capabilities such as object smoothing or subdivision; realistic rendering; skeletal animation support; scene setup and lighting; 3D particle systems; smoke simulations; and custom deformers.
  • Image Editing Software: This type of open source design software allows users to edit still images by adjusting their brightness/contrast levels, sharpening or blurring them or manipulating their colors or textures. Features typically available in these programs include cropping tools, cloning tools (for removing parts of an image), histograms (for checking the exposure level), healing tools (for merging two parts of an image together), selection tools (for selecting a certain part of an image), layer masks (which let you non-destructively adjust parts of an image), batch processing capabilities Specialized modules like HDR toning may also be available in some apps.
  • Video Editing Software: These applications are used to create videos from individual frames or clips obtained from various sources including recording devices such as cameras phones or tablets etc., record footage directly onto your computer via capture cards or through streaming services like Twitch etc. They provide features such as timeline support with clip trimming/splitting/combining capabilities; full stabilization controls color grading; motion tracking; audio mixing/editing capabilities with multiple channels support )and effects plugins along with integrated media storage management system.

Open Source Design Software Benefits

  1. Cost Savings: Open source design software is generally free, which helps users save on costs associated with purchasing proprietary license-based software.
  2. Flexible Licensing: Many open source design software solutions are licensed under General Public License (GPL) enabling unrestricted access to modify and redistribute the software. This makes it much easier for developers to create custom applications or products based on the open source codebase.
  3. Increased Security: Since many open source designers share their projects publicly, they are actively improved upon by a larger community of users. As a result, any security flaws are quickly identified and patched in the greater user base before it’s adopted elsewhere.
  4. Faster Development Time: With an expansive user community developing the same project, development time for new features is drastically reduced as multiple people can work simultaneously on different aspects of the same project instead of one developer working in isolation.
  5. Improved Quality: With more eyes reviewing code, there is less likelihood of low quality releases as any bugs or glitches will be addressed by multiple developers before being released into production. The ability to leverage bug reports from other users also helps make sure fixes happen faster than if one team had been solely responsible for creating and maintaining the software themselves.
  6. Enhanced Collaboration: Open source design tools enable collaboration between various stakeholders within an organization that wouldn't have been possible with closed source software due to incompatible licensing restrictions such as non-compete clauses or lack of reusability rights granted by vendors who own proprietary versions of certain features required for development tasks.

Who Uses Open Source Design Software?

  • Hobbyist: people who use open source design software for their own enjoyment or to do small projects in their spare time.
  • Professional Designers: experienced and skilled graphic designers who not only use open source design software, but also make use of other proprietary tools as well.
  • Graphic Design Companies: large companies that often employ several different types of designers and can take on large-scale projects.
  • Educators & Students: teachers, students, and other educators who are looking for an accessible way to learn about designing or teach others.
  • Nonprofit Organizations: charities and organizations dedicated to helping those in need who may be limited by budget constraints or lack of resources to purchase expensive licenses for design work.
  • Web Developers & UX/UI Designers: individuals focused on creating websites, user interfaces, and user experience designs that must be both attractive yet functional with the help of open source software.
  • Software Engineers & Game Developers:engineers specialized in coding video games or app development that rely heavily on open source software to create highly-detailed textures, 3D models and scenes quickly without resorting to professional programs like Autodesk Maya or Adobe After Effects.

How Much Does Open Source Design Software Cost?

Open source design software is typically free to use, as the code behind them is made freely available for anyone to download and modify. It is also usually maintained by a community of developers who work together to help ensure that it works correctly and stays up-to-date. This means you can get started with open source design software at no cost, although some providers may charge additional fees for certain features like advanced customization or technical support. Depending on the specific platform you choose, these added features could make your project more efficient or even provide valuable insights into user behaviors and trends. In addition, there are many tutorials available online which can be used to help you learn how to use an open source design software program effectively, often at no cost. All in all, open source design software offers a great way for anyone looking for cost effective yet reliable tools for their projects.

What Does Open Source Design Software Integrate With?

Open source design software can integrate with a variety of types of software including web development, software development, 3D modeling and animation, video production and more. Web development software such as WordPress or Drupal are both popular options for integrating into an open source design workflow. Software development tools such as C# or Java are also popular choices for incorporating code seamlessly into an open source design project. 3D modeling and animation programs like Blender or Maya can be used to bring high-fidelity visuals to a creation. And video production tools like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro can help bring together multiple pieces of content from around the web into one place. Integration with these types of applications allows a user to customize their work in ways that were never before possible on closed sourcing platforms, opening up new creative possibilities.

Recent Trends Related to Open Source Design Software

  1. Open source design software is becoming increasingly popular, as it offers a range of benefits over traditional proprietary software.
    It is typically available at no cost, meaning users can save money by using an open source program rather than buying a commercial software package.
  2. Open source design software is also often more flexible and customizable than its proprietary counterparts, allowing users to make changes to the program’s code in order to suit their needs.
  3. Open source design software is usually updated more frequently and with more features, making it easier for users to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.
  4. Many open source programs are designed for multiple platforms, so users can switch between Mac and PC without any compatibility issues.
  5. The open source community is strong and provides support for users who need help with their projects.
  6. Many commercial companies are now offering products based on open source design software, meaning that users can access the same features as with a proprietary program but without the hefty price tag.

Getting Started With Open Source Design Software

  1. Getting started with open source design software can be a great way to access powerful tools without breaking the bank. There are many different options available, allowing you to find the best option for your needs.
  2. To begin, decide which type of software fits your project requirements and budget. You’ll find free and open source programs that range from basic graphic editors to 3D modeling tools. Once you’ve found a program that matches your desired features, download it from the official website or an independent library like SourceForge or GitHub.
  3. Upon downloading, take some time to become familiar with the user interface of your chosen program. Check out tutorials online or follow step-by-step guides within the software itself if available. Many programs offer helpful in-depth instruction on how to use their design elements effectively so gather as much knowledge as possible before diving deeper into creative endeavors.
  4. Before starting any major projects using your new software, make sure you have all required resources installed and running properly on your device. This includes plugins, extensions and other systems necessary for compatibility with other digital environments such as websites or mobile apps. Make sure to check regularly for updates too. Updates may bring bug fixes and additional features that could be very useful while you work on various projects – keeping those bugs down is key when designing digitally.
  5. Now that you’re setup is complete it’s time to get creative. Open source design software puts an array of potential at your fingertips depending on which program you select – from text editing capabilities in Corel Draw to advanced 3D animation in Blender there is no shortage of possibilities when it comes digital artistry these days thanks open source development processes. The only limit is how far (and how deep) into learning programming languages such as GLSL or Python one might want delve into – but even this level is attainable with enough dedication.