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View 13 business solutionsBrowse free open source Design software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Design software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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 -
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MicroG RE
GmsCore fork for ReVanced with Material You, features and improvements
GmsCore fork designed for ReVanced with Material You design, along with some improvements and features. -
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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 -
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QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod
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WhiteSur GTK Theme
MacOS like theme for all gtk based desktops
WhiteSur-gtk-theme brings a macOS Big Sur–inspired look to Linux desktops by providing a polished GTK theme with light and dark variants, rounded shapes, and refined translucency. It includes assets and installer scripts to apply the theme across GTK applications and desktop shells that support GTK theming, aiming for a cohesive, high-contrast interface. The project pays attention to details like window controls, titlebars, selection states, and widget hover effects so apps feel consistent from toolkits to system settings. Configuration options typically allow tweaking accents and choosing variants that match different desktop environments and icon sets. Documentation guides users through installing prerequisites, applying the theme, and resolving common edge cases across distributions. For Linux users who prefer Apple’s visual style but want open platforms, WhiteSur offers a maintained, community-driven path to a modern, visually unified desktop. -
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Orchis theme
Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
Orchis-theme is a polished, Material Design–inspired GTK theme for GNOME and other GTK-based Linux desktop environments that gives your system a modern, unified visual style with soft gradients, consistent icons, and refined widget styling. It’s built to bring a high-quality aesthetic to applications, menus, dialogs, and control elements, making desktops feel more cohesive and attractive compared to default themes. The theme supports multiple color variants and sizing options, letting users tailor the look and feel to their personal preferences and desktop layouts. Installation scripts make it easy to apply the theme across supported environments and also handle compatibility with different GTK versions. Because it follows Material Design principles, Orchis strikes a balance between simplicity and visual depth, giving interfaces a fresh and contemporary appeal. -
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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.
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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. -
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Materialize
Materialize, a web framework based on Material Design
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design. Using VanillaJS and as less dependencies as possible to keep it fast and simple. We use TypeScript since it builds upon JavaScript and enhances the type- and code safety. You don't have to learn or integrate any new or crappy stuff. The goal here is to stick to the roots. Just copy and paste from the documentation and you are good to go. Most of the Features work event without JavaScript. Components should be useable by mobile devices and easily accessible by keyboard too. Try it out. User-centric approach with established design principles mainly from Google's Material guidelines. Our Components should work on nearly every device with a monitor. User-centric approach with many members all around the world, which helps bring Materialize forward and improve usability for everyone on the web. You can be a part too. -
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System Design Primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems
System Design Primer is a curated, open source collection of resources that helps engineers learn how to design large-scale systems. The project is structured as a comprehensive guide covering core system design concepts, trade-offs, and patterns necessary for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. It offers both theoretical foundations—such as scalability principles, the CAP theorem, and consistency models—and practical exercises, including real-world system design interview questions with sample solutions, diagrams, and code. The repository also contains study guides for short, medium, and long interview timelines, allowing learners to focus on both breadth and depth depending on their preparation needs. In addition, it includes flashcard decks designed to reinforce learning through spaced repetition, making it easier to retain key system design knowledge. -
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GRUB2 THEMES
Modern Design theme for Grub2
GRUB2 THEMES is an open-source collection of modern, visually appealing themes for the GRUB2 bootloader that enhance the graphical interface users see during system boot on Linux machines. Instead of the plain default GRUB menus, this project offers a set of sleek theme variants with custom backgrounds, icons, layouts, and resolutions that bring a more polished aesthetic to the early boot experience. Installation scripts provided in the repository automate applying themes to a system’s GRUB configuration, including options for different resolutions and screen sizes, and users can add custom backgrounds or tweak configurations. The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0 and has an active user base, making it one of the more popular sources for bootloader theming. It includes assets, configurations, and helper tools to simplify adoption, and supports variant customization so users can tailor the look to their preferences. -
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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
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Academic CV Theme
Easily create a beautiful academic résumé or educational website
theme-academic-cv is a Hugo static site theme specialized for building academic curriculum vitae (CV) websites, personal academic homepages, and scholarly portfolios. The theme is tailored to present publication lists, education, projects, awards, and contact information in a clean, professional layout suitable for faculty, researchers, and scientists. It includes shortcodes and content archetypes for common academic components (e.g. publications, talks, teaching, service), as well as styling, typography, and responsive layouts to make the CV visually appealing and readable across devices. The theme supports light/dark modes, custom color accents, and configuration options so users can modify the look without extensive CSS coding. It also often includes integration for BibTeX or publication metadata (e.g. rendering publication lists from bibliographic files) and support for linking PDFs, datasets, or supplemental materials. -
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SkyWater PDK
Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology
The SkyWater PDK is the first broadly available open-source process design kit for a commercial-grade CMOS node, enabling researchers, startups, and students to design real ASICs without proprietary NDAs. It provides the essential artifacts for digital and analog flows: SPICE models, DRC/LVS rules, extraction decks, and technology files for open tools like Magic and KLayout. Standard-cell libraries and IO pads are included so digital designers can use open synthesis and place-and-route to reach a manufacturable GDS. Because the PDK is open, it becomes a common target for community reference designs, open tapeouts, and teaching curricula. Documentation and example flows show how to assemble complete toolchains, from RTL to sign-off, using open EDA components. The project effectively lowers the barrier to custom silicon, catalyzing an ecosystem around an accessible 130-nm process. -
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erd
Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema
erd is a Haskell-based command-line tool that transforms a plain-text description of a relational database schema into a graphical entity-relationship diagram using common ER conventions. This utility takes a plain text description of entities, their attributes and the relationships between entities and produces a visual diagram modeling the description. The visualization is produced by using Dot with GraphViz. There are limited options for specifying color and font information. Also, erd can output graphs in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: pdf, svg, eps, png, jpg, plain text and dot. In case one wishes to have a statically linked erd as a result, this is possible to have by executing build-static_by-nix.sh: which requires the nix package manager to be installed on the building machine. NixOS itself is not a requirement. -
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Bulma
Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
Bulma is a free and open source, modern CSS framework based on Flexbox. It is a collection of CSS classes, with the end result being a single .css file. Because of this, you can write the HTML code you want and it would have no impact on the styling of your page. It has no JavaScript included, and can be considered “environment agnostic”, as it offers just a style layer over the logic. Bulma is 100% responsive, built to be mobile-first and modular, with 39 .sass files which you can individually import. It’s easy to learn and customize, and is compatible with recent versions of most common browsers, and even some earlier browser versions thanks to its autoprefixer. -
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Burger
The minimal hamburger menu with fullscreen navigation
Burger is a minimal hamburger menu with fullscreen navigation. It is created by mblode. This project officially requires zero external bower dependencies. -
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Figma Code Connect
A tool for connecting your design system components
Figma Code Connect is an open-source tool that enhances collaboration between designers and developers by synchronizing design components with source code in real time. Instead of treating design files and codebases as separate artifacts, it creates a continuous link so when a designer updates a UI element in Figma, developers see corresponding code changes or annotations immediately, making handoffs more precise and frictionless. The system supports multiple frameworks and languages, enabling teams to generate usable code snippets, style values, and component metadata from visual designs without manual translation. This approach reduces miscommunication and repetitive tasks that traditionally occur between design and engineering teams, speeding up iteration cycles while preserving fidelity to the original design intent. It can be integrated into development environments or build tooling so design updates automatically propagate into code patterns or UI specs. -
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Tela Icon Theme
A flat colorful Design icon theme
Tela Icon Theme is a flat, colorful icon theme for Linux desktops that brings a bright, vibrant, and cohesive set of icons to your system’s application launchers, file managers, and UI elements. The theme focuses on clarity and consistency, using simplified shapes and a harmonious color palette to make desktop visuals more appealing and user-friendly. It includes a wide range of scalable icons for applications, system components, and common actions, ensuring coverage across many use cases. Installation scripts let users install, customize, or remove the theme easily and support multiple color variants that match different aesthetic preferences. Because it’s distributed under the GPL, Tela-icon-theme is free to use, modify, and share, fostering an open-source community around visual customization. Its popularity in the Linux theming community speaks to its balance of aesthetics and practicality, offering a refreshing alternative to default icon sets. -
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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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HyDE Linux
Aesthetic, dynamic and minimal dots for Arch hyprland
HyDE Linux is an aesthetic, dynamic and minimal dots for Arch hyprland. The installation script is designed for a minimal Arch Linux install, but may work on some Arch-based distros. While installing HyDE alongside another DE/WM should work, due to it being a heavily customized setup, it will conflict with your GTK/Qt theming, Shell, SDDM, GRUB, etc., and is at your own risk. The install script will auto-detect an NVIDIA card and install nvidia-dkms drivers for your kernel. -
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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. -
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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/ -
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iScroll
Smooth scrolling for the web
iScroll is a high-performance JavaScript scroller built to bring smooth scrolling behavior to web interfaces across desktop, mobile, and smart TV environments. It was designed to be small, dependency-free, and optimized enough to work well on both modern and older devices. The library goes beyond basic scrolling by supporting zooming, panning, infinite scrolling, parallax effects, and carousel-style interactions. Developers can control scroll coordinates, customize easing behavior, and listen to detailed scrolling events during user interaction. The project includes several builds, such as the general version, a lighter mobile-focused version, a probe version for tracking scroll position, and a zoom-enabled version. The repository is archived and read-only, so it is best suited for legacy projects, reference use, or maintaining existing interfaces that already depend on iScroll. -
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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.
