# rough-stuff/rough

Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

Repository: https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rough
Homepage: http://roughjs.com
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: draw, canvas, graphics, svg, html5-canvas, svg-path
Last push: 2024-07-28T21:12:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3550, "days_push": 766, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 21141, forks 665 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:30.597967+00:00)

## What it is
Rough.js is a small (<9 kB) JavaScript graphics library that renders shapes with a hand-drawn, sketchy appearance. It provides drawing primitives for lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses, and works with both HTML5 Canvas and SVG.

## Use cases
- draw sketchy hand-drawn style graphics in the browser
- render rough-looking shapes on html5 canvas
- convert svg paths into hand-drawn style drawings
- create wireframe or whiteboard-style diagrams
- add hachure and cross-hatch fills to shapes
- draw sketchy charts or illustrations for web apps

## When to choose
- you want a hand-drawn or sketchy aesthetic for canvas or svg graphics
- you need a tiny dependency (<9 kB) for stylized drawing primitives
- you want configurable roughness, bowing, and fill styles like hachure or cross-hatch

## When to avoid
- you need precise, crisp vector graphics rather than a sketchy style
- you need server-side or non-browser rendering
- you need a full-featured drawing or charting framework

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: graphics, ui-components, animation
- domain: graphics, web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: hand-drawn, sketchy-style, canvas, svg, drawing-library, wireframe-graphics, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- rough-stuff/rough (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.597967+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:58:29.292117+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.597967+00:00, sha 272051fda812)
  - homepage: http://roughjs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:00.404363+00:00, sha 319c340c3493)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.