Start your figure

Drag an icon here, or start from a template

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Library

Style

Templates

Pick a template, then choose New figure to start fresh or Insert to add it as an editable group in your current figure.

Export figure

Format

Scale

What to export

Transparent background

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Keyboard shortcuts

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Welcome to Figure Canvas

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Figure Canvas

Build a journal-ready science figure: drag icons from the library, connect them into pathways, style everything in the inspector, and export PNG, SVG or PDF. Free, no sign-up.

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Figure Canvas user guide — shortcuts and five quick tips

Shortcuts

Five quick tips

Drag, don’t tap: drag an icon from the library straight onto the artboard — it lands under your pointer, already selected.
Connect, then move: use the Connector tool and pick a biology preset (Activation, Inhibition, Binding). The arrow stays attached when you move either icon.
Recolour in one click: select any icon and change its three colour slots in the Design tab; the Layers thumbnail updates at once.
Group before you move: select several objects with Shift-click or a drag-box, then Ctrl+G to group them so they move, rotate and resize as one.
Export at journal size: set the artboard to 85 mm (single column) in the Figure tab, then export PNG at “Print 300 DPI” for a print-ready file.

How it works

Every figure is built from icons in the library. Each icon has three colour slots you can recolour, and most have connection anchors on their edges. Connectors attach to anchors and follow the icons when they move. Groups, layers, alignment and distribution work like a desktop design tool. Your work autosaves on this device, and you can save a .mes.json project file to keep or share it. All icons in this editor are original drawings made for My Easy Science. No BioRender assets or names were used.