Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere. Of course, exporting as images is also supported (PNG and SVG).
Glyphs
Glyphs 4 is a Mac font editor that puts you in control: quickly draw high-precision vectors, efficiently reuse shapes, and easily manage any number of letters, figures and symbols.
Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS
See everything. Switch nothing. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes on one infinite canvas with dataflow connections. Native macOS.
Textadept
Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
Fragment | A modern toolkit for creative coding
Fragment lets you sketch, render, and export canvas-based graphics with ease, from quick experiments to production-ready visuals. Built on top of Vite, Svelte and Mediabunny.
Atlas — Moodboard, Reference & Inspiration Library for Mac
A native, local-first Mac app for design inspiration. Organize images and video into moodboards and reference libraries. No cloud, no subscription — $39 once.
Umoupen — Animate and Draw
Animation and drawing software for artists on Windows and macOS.
Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Available on Mac, Windows and Linux
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
Ishmael — a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac
Ishmael is a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac — beautiful typography, typewriter and focus modes, chapter management, and export to Word, EPUB, HTML, and Markdown.
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
Matplotlib is a 2D graphics package used for Python for application development, interactive scripting,and publication-quality image generation across user interfaces and operating systems
MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII
MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
You can now use TextExpander for free across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more
TextExpander now offers a free plan, letting users access its core Snippets feature on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Chrome. Here are the details.
Burning Logo Generator
Cool Text is the worlds most popular graphics generator. Online since 1998, our servers have rendered billions of free images.
Modern Mono
I’ve just finished setting up a new Mac (14" MBP, M2 Pro, 32G, 4T). It dawned on me that most of my really intense interactions with this thing involve looking at “monospace” (i.e. fixed-width) text; in Emacs where I write this blog, in my IDE, and in my terminal. The ones that came with the machine by default are, well, OK, but maybe we can do better. So I got on Mastodon and asked: “Dear LazyWeb: Setting up a new Mac, what are some groovy new monospace fonts for terminals and IDEs?”
Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing