Krita

Krita is a raster graphics editor based on the KDE Platform. It is also a part of Calligra Suite. Krita is designed to be a digital painting application. It has been influenced to some extent by software like Corel Painter and SAI. Krita packs with some key features different than most of its kind, including the ability to work with both bitmap and vector illustration. The developers also strive to simplify user interaction and focus on features more relevant to painting and drawing.

Krita is a free software distributed under GNU General Public License version 2 and above. It was initially released as a part of KOffice version 1.4.0, on June 21, 2005.

Vision

Krita's vision is defined on the official website as:

Origin of name

A README file accompanying Krita's source code states:

Mascot

Krita's mascot is Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, an anthropomorphic squirrel character designed by Tyson Tan. The early version of Kiki was submitted to KDE forum in 2012 and was first used in Krita 2.6's introduction booklet. A revised version was used as Krita 2.8's splash screen, as well as the merchandise shop items and Krita's Steam box art, cover art and project avatar.