azlen/initialis: Endless explorer for ornamental drop caps, illuminated lettering, and new typographic aesthetics. https://initialis.azlen.me ·
Endless explorer for ornamental drop caps, illuminated lettering, and new typographic aesthetics. https://initialis.azlen.me Endless explorer for ornamental drop caps, illuminated lettering, and new typographic aesthetics: https://initialis.azlen.me Every initial is drawn in your browser: a letter, its frame and ground, an ornament that grows out of it, a texture, and two or three inks printed onto paper. Nothing is a picture made in advance. It's a static site with no build step and no dependencies. Serve this folder with anything: Then open http://localhost:8000. It needs WebGL2 in web workers (any current Chrome, Edge or Firefox, Safari 17 or later). The aged page behind In context uses WebGPU and falls back to a flat page without it. lib/initialis.js draws any initial in someone else's page, from a share link or its settings, still or growing in. It works from any site: it brings its own render workers and fetches the fonts from wherever it's served. An initial is its settings (wha