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 # Monochrome
 
-Monochrome is a cross-platform GUI library aimed at C++ developers to help make the process of GUI development much easier. Monochrome offers modern style window and UI elements. The windowing and graphics systems depend on platform-dependent native APIs to operate at highest efficiency.
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+Monochrome is an open source cross-platform GUI library and framework aimed primarily at C++ developers to help make the process of desktop GUI development much easier. Monochrome offers modern style window and UI elements. The windowing and graphics systems depend on platform-dependent native APIs to operate at highest efficiency.
 
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