History The Krita team in 2014įree web comic Pepper&Carrot artwork by David Revoy (left) is drawn in Krita. It follows the 'K' prefix like everything else in the KDE suite. The project's name 'Krita' is primarily inspired by the Swedish words krita, meaning ' crayon' (or chalk), and rita which means 'to draw' as well as Sanskrit कृत which means 'made'/'done'. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Haiku, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support, and switchable customisation profiles. Krita ( / ˈ k r iː t ə/ KREE-tə) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. JSTOR ( November 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.