Recraft

What Recraft does

Recraft is a generative design tool built for the kind of graphics that end up in interfaces and brand systems: icons, spot illustrations, patterns and logos. Its distinguishing feature is vector output. Rather than producing a flat raster image, it can generate scalable SVG artwork whose paths and colours you can edit afterwards, either inside its own canvas or in a vector editor. Custom style training lets you upload a small set of reference images and then generate new artwork that matches, which is what makes it practical for keeping an icon set or illustration library coherent. It also handles raster generation, mock-ups and image editing on an infinite canvas. It suits designers, product teams and agencies maintaining a visual system. The limitation is scope: it is strong on clean graphic work and noticeably weaker at photorealistic scenes, and complex generated vectors sometimes arrive with messy path structures that need tidying.

How to use it

Sign up at recraft.ai and you land on an infinite canvas rather than a single prompt box, which is the first adjustment to make; you generate into a board and arrange results side by side. Pick the output type before generating, because the vector and raster paths behave differently, and choose a style from the library or your own trained styles. To train a style, upload a consistent set of reference images and wait for processing; this is the feature worth learning first, since generic prompts produce generic results. Generated vectors can be recoloured, ungrouped and exported as SVG, PNG or PDF. Two things commonly trip people up: free credits reset on a schedule and free output carries broader usage terms, so check licensing before commercial use; and highly detailed prompts often produce vectors with excessive anchor points, so ask for simpler compositions when the artwork needs to stay editable.

Best for

• icon sets
• brand illustration
• editable SVG
• pattern design
• UI graphics

Strengths and limitations