Luma is a free, open-source operating system with a designer’s tools already on it. Layout for vector and page. Develop for photos. Figma in the browser. One system across the desk, the tablet, and the phone in your pocket.
The Luma Creative Suite is included and free. Chrome and Firefox are here, so Figma is too. Nothing to license and nothing to migrate before you can start.
Figma
Chrome
FirefoxNo subscription, no ads, no sign-in to use your own machine. The suite does not have a tier.
A built-in compatibility layer runs the Windows and Android apps you already own. They feel native once they are here.
Luma installs from a live stick. Nothing on your disk changes while you try it. Pull the stick out and it is as if you never did.
Layout and Develop were built for this system, at the same scale, with the same dialogs. Figma runs where it always has: in the browser.
Vector paths, type, and pages together in one document. The mark you drew on page one is the mark on page twelve, and the export dialog speaks in the printer’s terms, not ours.
Catalog the shoot, grade it, mask the parts that need their own treatment, and batch the rest. Every edit is a set of instructions kept beside the file, so any look can be undone next year.
Chrome and Firefox run on Luma, so Figma does too, with nothing between it and the machine. Fonts you install on the system show up inside it.
Luma Sync keeps your devices in step. Finish at the desk, pick up the tablet, and walk into the review with the same document at the same page. No export, no upload, no “which version is this.”
Layout exports the formats a client and a printer expect, from the document you designed in, without a second application in the middle.
Print-ready, with bleed and marks where the printer wants them, and a screen version for the deck, from the same pages.
bleed 3 mm / marks on / CMYKThe logo as paths, clean enough to hand to a developer and small enough to go straight into the site.
paths only / no raster / 2.1 KBThe brochure, the business card, the poster, set at the size they will be held at and exported exactly as specified.
A5 / 4pp / 300 dpiWhen the client’s agency works in software that only runs on Windows, the built-in compatibility layer runs it here, natively-feeling, under the same permission model as everything else. You do not need a second machine to open their file.
The things that make a machine pleasant to live with. The same rules, for every app, whatever it arrived as.
Every app asks through the same dialog, whether it shipped with Luma, came from a browser, or arrived as Windows software.
System, suite, browsers, and everything you added: one list, one button. Remove an app and it is gone, with nothing left behind.
Ari runs locally, can act on your behalf, run routines, and build a small app when you ask for one. It can also be removed entirely.
From the kernel to the wallpapers. If a radius bothers you, the file is there. If a wallpaper is yours, send it in.
Funded by donations. There is no version of Luma that costs money, and there is no version that shows you an ad.
Boot from a live stick, open Layout, open your Figma file. If the desk feels right, install. If not, nothing on your disk has changed.