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Chris Messina

Lunacy 4.0 — Free graphic design software with built-in design resources

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Lunacy 4.0 is a full-fledged graphic editor with icons, photos, masked images and illustrations integrated and ready to use.
It’s Sketch for Windows with design assets.

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Ivan Braun
Maker
Design tools and design assets live their own lives. Tools know nothing about content. Creators have to search for visuals scattered all over the web. Lunacy 4.0 solves this problem making software and content work together. In this version, the editor provides integration of the visual content: - Illustrations from the top Dribbble artists - 100,000+ icons in 22 styles - Masked photos - 24,000+ photos in a consistent, light, Kinfolk-inspired style. So, now it’s Sketch for Windows but also with diverse built-in assets. As well, it offers: - GPU rendering for speed - symbols, effects, avatars - presentation mode - ability to set the workspace color - project shadow copy: keep calm your work is safe - better experience for processing text content Also, we are updating Lunacy to help designers simplify repetitive operations (you know, tons of the same buttons, tabs and all that stuff).
Anastasia Grebneva
I envy some of my Icons8 colleagues: I am on Mac, and can't use it. Using a bunch of other tools to create images for social media pages. And now when they can add our photos and illustrations to the design right in the tool, I envy even more :D
Karan Ganesan
@nastya_grebneva what are the free tools available for Mac for designing ?
Anastasia Grebneva
@karanganesan I have been using Inkscape, Snappa (this on is not free though); there are also Pixlr and Canva (has free options), but I haven't stuck to any of these two.
Boris G
Is it more like Canva or Figma?
Anton Tarasov
@bobbatron It's like Figma but with ready to use the content on board.
Ivan Braun
Maker
@bobbatron good question. Short answers: a bit like both. Much more powerful than Canva Unlike Canva, our assets are atomic: we don't have ready templates templates, but we integrate https://icons8.com/icons, photos.icons8.com, and https://icons8.com/ouch. Less powerful than Figma! However, compatible with .sketch (including saving) and (did I said it before?) has designer assets.
Anastasia Grebneva
@bobbatron Figma. Though it also can be used like Canva :)
Munir Kamal
Looks super awesome. But what about Mac users?
Ivan Braun
Maker
@munir_kamal I'd love to. My friends are making jokes of me, creating a design tool and ignoring Mac. It's hard though. We're a native app and we'll have to rewrite the UI from the scratch (like 30% of the code). Meantime, Mac designers have Sketch on their sleek MacBooks. We work for underprivileged. We work for Windows.
Aaron O'Leary
Whats new in this update?
Ivan Braun
Maker
@aaronoleary Hi Aaron, the main thing is integration of icons, photos, and illustrations. Just added the maker's comment with all the details :)
Marina Yalanska

I've been using Lunacy since version 2.0 and that's awesome to see how it is growing and extending its functionality. The images of all kinds integrated right into the editor present a great boost for faster work. Look forward to new updates, congrats to the team!

Pros:

The integration of design assets is a cool way to make my work much more productive. For free!

Cons:

Nothing to focus on

Anton Tarasov

I love this product because I'm a Windows user and I need a free tool for graphic design, you know. Lunacy is a good solution for that.

Pros:

I think it's the best alternative to Sketch app for Windows.

Cons:

Lunacy has few little bugs, just fix them.

Stas Neprokin
Ivan, we really need new styles for illustrations :)
Ivan Braun
Maker
@new_user_307e037a73 we've added these after the PH launch Still more? Any references?
Aaron D
Wow from just seeing the YouTube video I'm quite impressed. This could definitely be a Canva competitor as well as a Figma competitor.
Margarita
Shadow copy! It should be in every app. Life will be easier with this feature.
Sheik Mohaideen
Interesting idea and nice way of execution. Do you guys have plans to extend these libraries to Sketch on Mac as well ?
Ivan Braun
Maker
@sheikmohaideena Mac - yes, though unlike Figma, we're a native app and we'll have to rewrite the UI from the scratch (like 30% of the code). Sketch — I'm not quite sure how to do it. A plugin... I don't know, maybe we should add photos and vector illustrations to our https://icons8.com/app. What do you think?
Vlad Korobov
amazing
Naga Raju
This is great product .. it's feature are awesome
Martin Senk
Great. The experience of V3 was quite crippled, when opening larger artboard collections, talking about ~ 250mb here. Now there is no problem thanks to GPU rendering I guess? I think the main features I would need as a developer grabbing stuff from the sketch file would be CSS Syntax Highlighting. Also a feature like with Avocode, where you can upload a Font File for rendering missing System Fonts would be great. I guess you can just install them on your system, probably, maybe not. :) Lookin good so far.
zghm
I never thought I would be saying this however I can't believe I kinda want Windows for this app. ;)
Jonatan Austigard
Thank you so much for making this! Love it.
Corinna Keefe
Looks really useful - I definitely plan to try it out! Have you considered creating tutorials or training courses?
Chris Gaitanaris
This looks very promising and is a tool I would use.