The short version
Canvas Design
By Anthropic
Turn your ideas into museum-quality posters, art prints, and visual designs as PNG or PDF.
Extract Design
By Manav Arya
Pull the colors, fonts, and full design style from any website in one go.
What each one does
Canvas Design
- Generates posters, art prints, and visual layouts as PNG or PDF files
- Creates designs based on aesthetic movements like Brutalism, minimalism, or chromatic systems
- Produces museum-quality work with strong visual composition and minimal text
- Interprets your concept into a sophisticated design philosophy, then expresses it visually
- Delivers one-page visual artifacts suitable for printing or digital use
Extract Design
- Extracts the color palette with exact color codes and the font families a site uses
- Captures spacing, shadows, rounded corners, layouts, and common components
- Scores the site's color contrast against accessibility guidelines
- Creates a visual preview page plus Figma variables and theme files for developers
- Compares the design of two websites side by side
When to pick each one
Reach for Canvas Design when…
- You need a poster for a launch, event, or campaign but don't have design software skills
- You want branded visual assets that look professionally crafted
- You're pitching an idea and need a striking visual to accompany it
- You want original art for your office, presentation, or portfolio
Reach for Extract Design when…
- You want to know exactly which colors and fonts a website uses
- You're studying a competitor's or inspiration site's visual style
- You need to hand a site's design system to a designer in Figma or to a developer
Quick facts
| Canvas Design | Extract Design | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Anthropic | Manav Arya |
| Category | Design & Creative | Design & Creative |
| Source | View ↗ | View ↗ |
| Detail page | Open | Open |