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{{Short description|Software library}}
{{Others|GDK (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name                 = GTK
| title                = GDK
| logo                 = 
| screenshot           = GTK+ software architecture.svg
| caption              = Simplified software architecture of [[GTK]]
| collapsible          = 
| author               = GIMP authors
| developer            = [[The GNOME Project]]
| released             = 
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system     = [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Microsoft Windows]]
| platform             = [[X Window System core protocol|X11]], [[Wayland (display server protocol)|Wayland]], [[Quartz (graphics layer)|Quartz]] and [[Graphics Device Interface|GDI]]
| size                 = 
| language             = 
| genre                = [[Library (computing)|Software library]]
| license              = [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] (LGPL)
| website              = {{URL|https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/}}
}}

'''GDK''' ([[GIMP]] Drawing Kit) is a [[Library (computing)|library]] that acts as a [[Wrapper pattern|wrapper]] around the low-level functions provided by the underlying windowing and graphics systems. GDK lies between the [[display server]] and the [[GTK]] library, handling basic [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] such as drawing primitives, [[raster graphics]] (bitmaps), [[Cursor (computers)|cursor]]s, [[font]]s, as well as [[Event (computing)|window events]] and [[drag-and-drop]] functionality.

Like [[GTK Scene Graph Kit]] (GSK), GDK is part of GTK and licensed under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] (LGPL).