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Excalidraw-CN

Open source

Excalidraw-CN is a free, MIT-licensed fork of Excalidraw that adds Chinese handwriting fonts and multi-canvas support; its functionality has since moved into the Revezone project.

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Excalidraw-CN homepage screenshot
GitHub stars
2.5k
Last commit
2 yr ago
Repository age
3 years
Licence
MIT
Self-hosted
Yes

About Excalidraw-CN

Excalidraw-CN is a whiteboard tool built on top of Excalidraw that adds support for Chinese handwriting-style fonts and multiple canvases. It was created for users who wanted the familiar Excalidraw drawing experience but with hand-drawn Chinese typography and the ability to manage several canvases rather than a single board.

The README notes that this project, previously known as Handraw, has been fully upgraded into a separate project called ReveZone, which adds more convenient multi-canvas file management and custom fonts, with both an online version (data stored in the browser) and a desktop app (data stored locally). An older, deprecated online version remained available separately, and a companion Obsidian plugin was also developed to bring the same Chinese handwriting style into Obsidian.

Excalidraw-CN itself is written in TypeScript, requires Node.js, Yarn and Git for local development, and is released under the MIT license. New users are directed toward Revezone as the actively developed successor rather than this original repository.

Key features

  • Chinese handwriting-style fonts
  • Multi-canvas whiteboard support
  • Based on the Excalidraw drawing engine
  • Companion Obsidian plugin
  • Online and local-install usage options

Good fit for

  • →Hand-drawn style diagrams with Chinese text
  • →Managing multiple whiteboard canvases
Built with
TypeScript
Tags
whiteboard
excalidraw
chinese-fonts
canvas
typescript
drawing

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