The Bitgrain Studio

The studio is the full design surface: multiple pages, multiple layers, real typography and non-destructive effects. It is where covers, posters, zines, brand boards, decks and documents get made.

Layers, shapes and type

A true vector pen with bezier editing, thirteen shape types, sixteen blend modes, generative patterns, snap guides and alignment tools. Layers group, mask and reorder, and effects stack on them non-destructively so you can change your mind later.

Typography runs on any font you upload alongside the bundled families, with full control over per-range colour, weight, size and style.

Design tokens and brand work

Design kits hold reusable colour, type and spacing tokens, so changing one value updates every place it is used across a document. Palettes can be extracted from any image, and harmony rows help build a system rather than a one-off.

Paper treatments like torn edges, polaroid frames and tape sit alongside a mockup engine that warps a finished design onto a real product photograph with automatic perspective.

Export

PNG and WebP for screen, SVG for vector workflows, and multi-page PDF for print. Riso and CMYK separations export as per-ink layers when the work is going to a press.

Documents save as portable .btg files that carry layers, effects, type and palette together.

Multi-page documents

A studio document can hold many pages, which is what makes zines, decks, booklets and multi-format campaigns workable in one file rather than several. Pages share the document's design tokens and fonts, so a colour change propagates across all of them.

Export can take a single page as PNG or SVG, or the whole document as a multi-page PDF at print resolution.

Common questions

Can I use my own fonts?

Yes. Upload any font file and it becomes available across the document, alongside the bundled families. Per-range styling covers colour, family, weight, style and size.

Does the studio work offline?

The processing does, because it runs locally. Loading the app and syncing to the cloud need a connection, but the rendering pipeline itself does not call out to a server.

What is a .btg file?

Bitgrain's portable project format. It carries layers, effect settings, typography and palette together, so a project reopens identically on another machine or a year later.

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