lowframer 0.3.0

A tiny kit for drawing low-fidelity wireframe art: miniature, theme-aware UI illustrations built from code, no assets.

lowframer

The low-fidelity wireframe art kit for Flutter.

Catalogues and galleries need a cover per item, and the usual options all trade off: screenshots go stale and lock to one theme, icons are too abstract, and illustrations need a designer and can't follow dark mode.

lowframer's art is code instead: a miniature wireframe composed from a few primitives, drawn to say exactly what each item is, current and on-theme by construction.

🔎 Try the live demo →

The showcase, running in your browser: every primitive as a playground, and the compositions built from them. No install required.

Features ✨

• Compose exactly the art you need: Window, Cover, Box (line/pill), Scribble, Palette; five primitives, a distinct cover art in ~20 lines, no designer in the loop
• Theme-aware for free: every color derives from the ambient ColorScheme; light/dark needs zero per-theme code
• Handwriting without words: the Scribble draws deterministic pen strokes with size, frequency, seed, and italic knobs
• Deterministic by contract: no Random; identical input paints identical pixels, golden- and test-stable
• Zero assets, zero dependencies: pure Flutter, nothing to bundle

Installation 💻

flutter pub add lowframer

Or add it to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  lowframer: ^0.3.0

Usage 🚀

A miniature "buttons" illustration, a framed window holding pill silhouettes with one accent:

import 'package:lowframer/lowframer.dart';

class ButtonsArt extends StatelessWidget {
  const ButtonsArt({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final palette = LowframerPalette.of(context);
    return LowframerWindow(
      child: Column(
        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
        mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
        spacing: 8,
        children: [
          LowframerBox.pill(color: palette.accent, width: 72, height: 16),
          LowframerBox.pill(color: palette.fill, width: 96, height: 16),
          LowframerScribble(color: palette.fillStrong, width: 90),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

Wrap the window in a LowframerCover to present it as a card cover: a full-width wash panel with the framed art centered and lifted off it.

The scribble's knobs

LowframerScribble stands in for written text: one continuous wavy pen stroke, no actual words.

Knob	Meaning
color	The ink color
width / height	Line length and wave band; with strokeWidth, the writing's size
strokeWidth	Pen thickness
wavelength	Pixels per peak-and-valley cycle, the writing's frequency
seed	Varies the handwriting; two lines with the same knobs read as different sentences
fontStyle	Mirrors TextStyle.fontStyle; italic slants the stroke
style	sketch (uniform drawn wave, default) or wave (irregular scrawl)

Customizing the palette

LowframerPalette.of(context) derives from the ambient ColorScheme by default, so the art follows your theme, dark mode included, with no extra code. To customize, scope a palette over a subtree with LowframerTheme; everything below it (including LowframerWindow and LowframerCover, which resolve internally) picks it up:

LowframerTheme(
  palette: LowframerPalette(
    backdrop: Color(0x14704214),
    background: Color(0xFFFDF6EC),
    border: Color(0xFFE3D5C0),
    fill: Color(0x3D704214),
    fillStrong: Color(0x8A704214),
    accent: Color(0xFF9C4221),
  ),
  child: LowframerCover(child: ButtonsArt()),
)

To tweak rather than replace, start from the derived palette and copyWith:

final palette = LowframerPalette.of(context).copyWith(accent: Colors.teal);

Two apps live in this repository, and they answer different questions.

example/ is the smallest app that draws lowframer art — one screen, the four primitives, ~120 lines. Start there to see what a composition is made of:

cd example && fvm flutter run

showcase/ is the full thing: a playground per primitive, where you turn its knobs and watch the art redraw, plus the compositions built from them. It is what the live demo serves:

cd showcase && fvm flutter run