Serious vector software that bends around the way you work, not the other way round. And it costs nothing (genuinely).
Stay in the groove from the first curve to the final nudge. Every adjustment lands in real time, and a rebuilt rendering core means you can pan, zoom and edit enormous files without a stutter. Rearrange the workspace until it matches the way you actually work.
Marque hands you total control over every shape, grid and guide. Edit curves and nodes with pen-point accuracy, keep things exactly where they belong with snapping and alignment, and lean on symbols and constraints so icons, logos and UI stay consistent across every artboard. Plus, with non-destructive editing, real-time previews and reliable export, you can refine endlessly knowing your work will always behave.
Someone once told you that vector work stops at flat shapes. It doesn’t. Alongside a full vector toolkit you get raster brushes and texture, and life, so digital illustration sits naturally alongside logo or UI work. And when you’re ready to push past drawing, advanced photo editing and layout tools are right there in the same smooth space. Nothing to export, nothing to relaunch.
Responsive, smooth and entirely under control — that's how vector work feels in Marque. Powerful enough to build a full UI system, quick enough to sketch a logo idea in the middle of a call. Every move answers back instantly.
Snap, reshape, flow. Marque’s curve editing is built for total control, so you can sculpt every line to the millimetre.
From plain rectangles to whole systems, the Shape Builder lets you combine and cut geometry without ceremony.
Bitmap fills, hatch patterns, linear, radial and mesh gradients — the Fill tool adds depth, colour and texture.
Turn a flat image into crisp, fully editable vectors with Image Trace — a clean, scalable foundation in seconds, no redrawing required.
Make non-destructive edits in real time, turn strokes into shapes instantly, and rework paths or corners in seconds.
Flow text along any path, build custom lettering, and add everything from ligatures to character and paragraph styles.
Add raster brush texture to your illustrations with no lag, no proxy previews and no waiting for a redraw.
“Marque keeps pushing at the edges and proving, again, that it is a long way ahead of the pack. It has backed working illustrators from day one, and this release only sharpens that.”
Built for illustrators, web designers, game developers and every other kind of maker, Marque’s free graphic design studio gives you everything you need to turn out work you’re proud of.
With Northlight premium plans
Generate fully editable vectors from a plain-language prompt — no tracing, no pen tool, no plug-ins. Whether you’re sketching a concept or building production-ready assets, Marque’s Generate Vector turns the idea into a clean, node-based graphic you can adjust, recolour and reshape however you like.
Pick Marque for macOS or Windows on the Downloads page. You’ll be asked to sign in with a Northlight account (or make one, free). Follow the prompts and you’re installed.
Get MarqueOpen Marque, start a new document or drop in a file, and you’ll find every vector, graphic and illustration tool waiting in the Vector studio.
Tune the studio to your workflow — strip out tools you never touch, pull in photo or layout panels when you need the extra reach, or leave it exactly as it came.
Concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI, mockups and the rest — Marque carries the whole graphic design range you'd expect from professional software, and a fair bit more.
Want to take the finished thing further? Push Marque files straight into Northlight, where you, your clients or your colleagues can carry on together at scale.
Yes, Marque really is free. Every tool in the Pixel, Vector and Layout studios is yours, along with all the customisation and export features, as much as you want, with no cap and no payment. The app keeps getting free updates too.
If you’re on a Northlight premium plan (Pro, Business, Enterprise, Education) you’ll additionally unlock Northlight's AI tools from inside Marque.
SVG, PDF, EPS, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, HEIF and PSD, plus print-ready PDF/X presets with bleed, crop marks and spot colour support.
Yes. AI, EPS, SVG, PDF and PSD files open with layers, text and effects intact wherever the source format allows it.
You can. Layered PSD and PDF exports keep the structure of your document so hand-off to another editor is uneventful.
The toolset is comparable, the rendering is faster on large documents, and there is no subscription. The one honest difference is our plug-in ecosystem, which is younger.
You need a free Northlight account to download and sign in. Once you’re in, Marque runs entirely on your machine and works offline.
No. Premium only adds the Northlight AI features. Everything else is unlocked on the free tier.
Generate Vector and the rest of the AI toolset sit behind a Northlight premium plan. The core design tools do not.
Yes — indefinitely, on as many of your own machines as you like, with no watermarks and no export limits.
You can build and save custom studios, arrange panels however you like, and sync those layouts between your machines.
That’s the commitment. Feature releases land roughly three times a year and stay free for everyone on the free tier.