Word brush
Paint, and the prose finds room.
Draw anywhere on the sheetor let Shapes draw one for you
Set the text
Draw one for me
A shape replaces the sheet; Undo brings your drawing back. Tail and Wings set the poems that first took those shapes.
Word brush
A calligram sets words in the shape of what they say. George Herbert shaped each stanza of Easter Wings like a pair of wings in 1633; Lewis Carroll printed the Mouse’s Tale as a winding tail in 1865; Apollinaire made his letters fall as rain in 1918. This brush does it live: whatever you draw, a passage pours through it.
Every stroke paints a coarse mask. Each row of type asks the mask where it has room, and Pretext, Cheng Lou’s text layout library, breaks the passage into lines that fit exactly those widths, carrying on from where the last line stopped. It measures with the browser’s own font engine but never touches the DOM, so the whole sheet reflows on every frame of a stroke. Each line is then justified to its edges, and every word glides to its new place, so the type moves like a liquid when you draw or erase.
B brush · E eraser · [ and ] width · right-drag erases · Ctrl+Z undo
Set in EB Garamond by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo, under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site. Layout by Pretext, under the MIT License. The passages are in the public domain: Lewis Carroll (1865), George Herbert (1633), William Shakespeare (1609), Walt Whitman (1892 text), and Cicero (45 BC), whose De finibus is where lorem ipsum comes from.