Single stroke
Type a line and the pen letters it in capitals, one stroke at a time, lifting in between. The alphabet is my own.
Up to 30 characters on two lines. Lowercase is lettered as capitals, the way a drawing is.
How it works
A pen cannot fill a shape, so plotter lettering is made of open lines. I drew this alphabet for the site: capitals, numbers and a few marks, most letters two or three strokes.
Every stroke, and every trip through the air between two strokes, is laid end to end on one timeline, and the pen runs along it at one speed. Type more and it carries on from the first stroke that changed. Delete, and the letters are gone at once: erasing is never a slow redraw backwards.
The SVG is polylines only, which is what a real plotter wants.
- Input
- A text field, 30 characters
- Drawn with
- One canvas, a stroke per pen stroke
- Work
- Runs while there is something left to write
- Reduced motion
- The finished lettering, at once
Made for the fun of it. The paid work gets the same pen.