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  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Reminds me of wired elements (which uses Rough.js under the covers).

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

  • 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

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