Sketch for Mac is a vector drawing software designed specifically for the Mac platform. It features a clean and intuitive interface, built on an infinite canvas with layers, free color palettes, and user-friendly panels, menus, windows, and controls. Despite its simplicity, Sketch offers robust vector drawing and text tools, including precise boolean operations, symbols, and powerful rulers, guides, and grids.
Key Features
- Simple yet powerful interface optimized for both Retina and non-Retina displays.
- Advanced styling capabilities with multiple shadows, fills, gradients, blending, blurring, and noise effects.
- Flexible boolean operations for combining simple shapes into complex forms.
- Artboards and slicing for exporting multiple images from a single file, with automatic @2X export for Retina graphics.
- Unique color picker with RGB and HSB modes, and a font selector with beautiful native text rendering and styles.
- Vector and pixel zooming for infinite precision or individual pixel focus.
- Multi-stop and radial gradients edited directly on the canvas with powerful WYSIWYG rendering.
- Support for importing and exporting PDF, EPS, and SVG files.
- Layer styles with automatic updates when shared and linked.
- Powerful and easy-to-use vector tools.
Additionally, designers will benefit from the following:
- For web and UI design, copy CSS styles directly to the clipboard.
- Slicing: Export images from specific areas on the canvas.
- 960px grid with support for advanced grid options.
- Support for multiple pages within a single file, ideal for icon designers.
- Artboards, each functioning as its own mini canvas.
- iOS icon templates.
- Pixel grid and pixel-perfect effects like Gaussian and motion blur.
Installation Steps
Download the installation package, double-click the SketchI18N.sketchplugin file in the extracted folder to complete the installation. Restart Sketch to enable automatic localization, and you will see the translated interface upon entering the application. Note that the initial interface may appear in English; simply wait for the localization to take effect.