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Do not build this. The templates and the licensed assets are the product, and both are legal rather than technical.

A template library large enough that the blank page never appears is thousands of designs somebody drew. The stock photographs, fonts and illustrations are licensed, and that licence is what lets you publish what you make. Neither is code.

WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
- Keep it if somebody non-technical makes graphics regularly. It is cheap for what it removes
- If you are producing the same three kinds of image over and over — a share card, a quote graphic, an announcement — that is not a design problem, it is a template you can render

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD, AND SHOULD

**Generated images from your own templates**, which is faster than any editor once it exists:

STACK
- Node 20+, satori for layout and @resvg/resvg-js for rasterising, sharp for post-processing. No headless browser — fifty times lighter for the same result

WHAT TO IMPLEMENT
- A template as a function returning a layout, taking a small object: a title, a label, an image, a number
- Text fitting by binary search on the rendered height, not a character count, so a forty-character title and a four-character one both look deliberate
- Fonts loaded from disk, never fetched at render time, with a declared fallback for the scripts you might receive — otherwise non-Latin text renders as empty boxes
- Your colours and your mark, measured for contrast rather than chosen by eye
- A command that regenerates everything, and generation at build time so nothing can fail when it matters

WHERE TO GET ASSETS LEGALLY
- Fonts with open licences, and read the licence — some forbid embedding or modification
- Photographs from a permissive source, with the licence recorded per file so you can prove it later
- Icons from an open set, credited as required
- Keep a file listing every asset, its source and its licence. That record is what protects you if anybody ever asks

THE ONE-LINE VERSION
Buy the templates if you need variety. Generate the images you make repeatedly, and keep a licence record for everything you use.