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  • The comic sans of UI controls?
    by doobiedowner
  • Neat! I wonder if the page performance suffers much if it's a large page full of similarly styled components.
    by bluerooibos
  • > Every mount generates a fresh pen sketch from seeded randomness, and the stroke boils like an animated doodle.

    I've seen many hand drawn effect css libraries but what I like about this one is that each control has its own unique stroke. Pretty neat

    by _usefulcat
  • Where can I see a live demo that works on mobile?
    by jagged-chisel
  • Came here to say the same thing. Easiest is just to use GitHub pages.
    by isuckatcoding
  • This reminds me of d2lang's sketch mode[0], which I really like. Amazing if you want to publish a diagram for comment but have it not look so official someone can steal it and promise it to a customer with your name attached. Naming no names.

    [0] https://d2lang.com/tour/sketch

    by robertlagrant
  • Regardless of what the other commenters are saying, I really like this. It looks cute and neat, and is the kind of stuff that I like to occasionally see on HN.

    Might be a good set of components for a simple no nonsense scratchpad webpage or something similar.

    by reeeeee
  • Those feel very ink-blobby - like they were drawn by someone who can barely hold a pen stick-stopping across each line and then redoing parts of each line to correct mistakes. Looks elementary schooler.

    I prefer Excalidraw look and feel - a couple of smooth and mostly straight lines per line, which looks more like intentional competence with a quick and imperfect tool.

    by BariumBlue
  • FWIW, Excalidraw uses (or at least originally used to, I didn't check again) the similar project Rough.js: https://roughjs.com/
    by Vinnl
  • The effect is ruined when the text in the buttons is perfect normal font. It should be hand drawn too otherwise it looks really off.
    by Schlagbohrer
  • Agreed.
    by bluerooibos
  • I don't mind that since it helps with legibility which I find some fonts with a hand drawn aspect to them have.
    by JLO64
  • Reminds me of wired elements (which uses Rough.js under the covers).

    https://github.com/rough-stuff/wired-elements

    by vunderba
  • I don't necessarily care about AI use in projects, but it is somewhat ironic seeing a UI library imitating "hand-drawn" elements which is itself made entirely (I assume, reading the readme and commits) using AI.
    by brw
  • Maybe I'm old fashioned, but usually when something says "hand drawn", I'd expect it to be hand drawn, not machine drawn
    by voidUpdate
  • My thoughts exactly. At the very least the author should add a disclaimer that it's not actually hand-drawn but only looks like it.
    by mb_thd
  • Truthful descriptions of products are so last century
    by small_scombrus