--- title: Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 | daily.dev description: SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 has shipped after nearly seven years of development, offering a fully managed .NET drawing companion library for ImageSharp.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 | daily.dev og:description: SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 has shipped after nearly seven years of development, offering a fully managed .NET drawing companion library for ImageSharp.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6XeGCw9he.png og:image:alt: Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 **[Six Labors : ImageSharp](https://daily.dev/sources/sixlabors)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 has shipped after nearly seven years of development, offering a fully managed .NET drawing companion library for ImageSharp. It supports rich text rendering, path and shape drawing, gradients and pattern fills, anti-aliasing, and SVG parsing, and works as a System.Drawing alternative for containerized environments. Version 1.x is licensed under Apache 2.0 and only compatible with ImageSharp v2.x. A future v2 release compatible with ImageSharp v3.x is planned under the Six Labors Split License. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What license does ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 use and what does it work with? ImageSharp.Drawing 1.x is licensed under Apache 2.0, making it fully open source and free to use. It is compatible only with ImageSharp v2.x releases, not v3.x. A future v2 release compatible with ImageSharp v3.x will instead be distributed under the Six Labors Split License. _daily.dev helps .NET developers track licensing shifts before they affect a dependency upgrade._ ### What drawing features does SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing provide for .NET? It adds rich text rendering via SixLabors.Fonts, path drawing for lines curves and polygons, primitive shapes like circles and rectangles, advanced fill patterns including gradients and image patterns, and anti-aliasing for smooth output. It's a fully managed solution requiring no native libraries, making it suitable for containerized .NET applications where System.Drawing isn't available. _Developers evaluating managed drawing libraries for .NET can follow ImageSharp updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release](https://daily.dev/posts/skiasharp-4-0-is-here-announcing-the-first-stable-release-i6cab6h9v) · .NET Blog · 30 upvotes · 4 comments - [Using the SkiaSharp graphics library in .NET](https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-skiasharp-graphics-library-in-net-lefrtoofl) · InfoWorld · 16 upvotes · 1 comments - [SkiaSharp 4.0 Establishes Milestone-Aligned Release Cadence](https://daily.dev/posts/skiasharp-4-0-establishes-milestone-aligned-release-cadence-cnqoznuu4) · InfoQ · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [SkiaSharp for .NET](https://daily.dev/posts/skiasharp-for-net-wxs8k3g86) · Uno Platform · 60 upvotes · 3 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#c#](https://daily.dev/tags/c#), [#image-processing](https://daily.dev/tags/image-processing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:18:47.241Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:29:45.459Z","description":"SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 has shipped after nearly seven years of development, offering a fully managed .NET drawing companion library for ImageSharp....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Six Labors : ImageSharp","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Six Labors : ImageSharp","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/sixlabors"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,.net,c#,image-processing","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Six Labors : ImageSharp","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/sixlabors"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-imagesharp-drawing-1-0-0-6xegcw9he#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What license does ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0 use and what does it work with?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"ImageSharp.Drawing 1.x is licensed under Apache 2.0, making it fully open source and free to use. 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