Typeset, not plotted
Every layer is one block of real text. The browser's font engine measures each advance; the optimiser chooses marks that fit both the image and the line. No glyph is absolutely positioned.
live text
Booting
04 Export
actual text, not a canvasThe artwork on screen is a stack of real text layers, each one a<pre>. One line per row, no positioned spans. Select it, copy it, or take this snippet and drop it anywhere HTML is allowed.
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- 01 One layer, one colour, one text block. Tone comes from glyph density and overlap.
- 02 Line breaks are the layout. No per-glyph coordinates.
- 03multiply for ink, screen for light, normal for paint.
- 04 Proportional fonts work because the browser measures every advance before the optimiser picks a mark.
Embedding copies the font data into the snippet. Check the bundled font's license before sharing it publicly.
Layers, not filters
This is an optimistic homage to typewriter art: overstrike without paper, half-spacing without a platen. Each layer has one ink colour, its own font, and continuous offsets. One layer is an ASCII filter. Three RGB layers are a light painting.
Still text
No screenshot at the end. The preview is the artifact. Copy the snippet and the actual lines survive: selectable, searchable, editable, and a little absurd as a paragraph.