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Mischief uses a revolutionary new stroke representation. Get the richness of pixel-based brushes AND the scalability of vectors. Zoom in to any size and get a PERFECT edge. Export at ANY size and resolution.

61 Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2008. Mischief, our first commercial product, draws on many years of experience crafting products in publishing, typography, graphics, and design. Its principals are the inventors of the Saffron Type System, the underlying font rendering technology used on the Amazon Kindle and in Adobe Flash. 

At 61 Solutions, we believe that drawing with a computer can be as fun and as powerful as drawing with pencil and paper. We believe that digital drawing doesn’t require compromises. We believe that you don’t need to choose between pixels and vectors - that, in fact, there is a better way. 

Mischief uses Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields (ADFs), originally invented and developed at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and further enhanced at 61 Solutions. ADFs are a new digital representation of shape which provide numerous advantages including  high-quality anti-aliasing, very fast rendering, very small file sizes, multi-scale rendering, support for massive parallelism, and the ability to succinctly represent variable-width, scalable, textured strokes. This technology is protected by over 50 patents.