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Vexy Lines

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Turn any image into expressive, editable vector art

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Turn any image into expressive, editable vector art

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Vexy Lines is a desktop vector studio for Mac and Windows that transforms photos, sketches and AI images into expressive, print-ready artwork. Choose from 12 algorithmic fills—including engraving lines, waves, halftone dots, scribbles and text—then stack layers, paint masks, warp meshes and refine every stroke. Export crisp SVG, PDF, EPS, PNG or JPEG. Try every feature free; unlock export with a $99 lifetime license.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 We’ve always been fascinated by what happens when pixels become structure—not just a trace, but lines, waves, dots, letters and patterns that carry the tone and character of the original image. The idea began with Strokes Maker, released by Dmitry Apanovich in 2007. Vexy Lines is its complete rewrite: a focused desktop studio for Mac and Windows that transforms photos, sketches and generated images into editable, print-ready vector artwork. What makes Vexy Lines different from a one-click vectorizer: ✺ 12 algorithmic fill styles, including engraving, waves, halftone, trace, scribble and text ✺ Multiple fills, layers, groups and paintable masks ✺ Dynamic colors sampled directly from the source image ✺ Mesh warping, perspective and automatic hidden strokes ✺ Handmade vector strokes for final refinements ✺ SVG, PDF and EPS export for print, screen printing, vinyl cutting and engraving ✺ Fully offline operation after activation You can explore every feature for free, with no time limit. Export unlocks with a $99 lifetime license—no subscription. We’d love your honest feedback: what would you make with Vexy Lines, and which fill style catches your eye first? — Adam, Yuri, Dima & the FontLab team

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3d ago

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Hello all, I’m Adam from the team that created Vexy Lines. I’ve been co-developing the FontLab font editor for two decades now. And I’ve co-created a number of font families: Lato (with Łukasz Dziedzic), Zapfino Extra (with Hermann Zapf), Milka (with Botio Nikoltchev), Agmena (with Jovica Veljović), Zeitung Pro (with Underware), Helvetica World (with Tiro Typeworks). I contributed to Arial and Times New Roman for Microsoft.

Overall, I’m a typography & typeface person at heart. So when my colleagues at my company Fontlab Ltd. developed the Vexy Lines app as a side project — initially I was skeptical. Cross-hatching? Engraving? Halftoning? That sounds nice — but how does this relate to what our users do?

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After a few weeks with Vexy Lines, I got hooked and immersed!

I think this app is just as typographic as FontLab or TransType. Vector line patterns and halftones are all about smooth vectors and about rhythm — just like digital fonts. :)

You can use Vexy Lines for rich variable-font typography for lettering, but also for portraits — even if the original photo is not the highest quality.

Visit vexy.art and try out Vexy Lines (the standalone app for Mac & Windows), Vexy Linestra (the Adobe Illustrator plugin for hatching, engraving and halftoning) and the free Vexy Playlines web app!

Best,
Adam Twardoch
Fontlab Ltd.

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2h ago

I love Vexy Lines. It is now an integral part of my hybrid poster design process. Some things are just not feasible without it.

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1h ago

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16h ago

Vexy Lines: it redraws your photo out of engraving lines, waves and halftone dots

In 2007 Dmitry Apanovich released Strokes Maker, a tool that built engraving-style drawings out of ordinary images. Dmitry is at FontLab now, and we spent a long time rewriting that idea into something with a calmer interface and much more control. That became Vexy Lines.

The image you drop in isn't the artwork, it's the signal. Vexy reads its light and shade and draws vector strokes that thicken wherever the source goes darker. There are a dozen fill styles, from plain linear hatching through waves, spirals, halftone dots, wireframe, scribble, autotrace and a Text fill that pours words along the pattern. You stack them on layers, confine each one behind a mask you paint yourself, bend a layer over a mesh, sample color straight from the photo, and add handmade strokes wherever the algorithm needs supervision. Nothing gets flattened, so you can reopen and change any of it, and it exports to SVG, PDF and EPS.

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Yeah, that’s me ↑

After a few weeks with Vexy Lines, I got hooked and immersed!

I think this app is just as typographic as FontLab or TransType. Vector line patterns and halftones are all about smooth vectors and about rhythm — just like digital fonts. :)