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Reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2019-10-06 · latest 2025-09-05

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  1. It’s a library (not by the same author). https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by latexr · 2025-09-05 · in I'm absolutely right
  2. …you want clicky web GUI you can use a bunch of javascript-ports, eg. https://sketchviz.com/new or https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz ... avoid valuing presentation over content, though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mat…
    comment by contingencies · 2022-09-21 · in Mapping the unknown – Steps to map any industry
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    RoughViz: JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts
    story by thunderbong · 2021-12-15 · 0 comments
  4. …). Shameless plug: I also created a dataviz library that uses roughjs under-the-hood: https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by jwilber · 2021-12-14 · in Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
  5. Nice! Reminds me of rough.js stuff: - https://roughjs.com/ - https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz - https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough-notation One comment: some items aren’t rendering properly on my safari (eg checkboxes)
    comment by torbTurret · 2021-12-14 · in Show HN: A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme
  6. roughViz, a library to make hand drawn looking charts in the browser: https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by jwilber · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
  7. I was thinking this was gonna be some long ago theoretical work on something like roughViz https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by bryanrasmussen · 2020-08-11 · in Sketching Realistic Graphs (2005)
  8. …author. 1. Roughjs - rough primitives https://roughjs.com/ 2. roughViz - rough data visualization https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz 3. Wired-elements - rough wireframes https://github.com/wiredjs/wired-elements
    comment by heyhihello · 2020-05-28 · in Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
  9. Another library recently featured in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648968 https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by johnx123-up · 2020-01-25 · in Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
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    RoughViz: JS library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn style charts in the browser
    story by feross · 2019-11-27 · 60 comments
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    Show HN: Roughviz.js – Sketchy, hand-drawn style charts for the browser
    story by jwilber · 2019-10-07 · 1 comment
  12. For a hand-drawn aesthetic chart.js alternative (that uses SVG), check out roughViz.js https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
    comment by jwilber · 2019-10-06 · in A Beginner’s Guide to Chart.js