Type & code

Type mask

Your word as a window: the photograph shows only inside its strokes.

Type mask: a type & code effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Type mask in the studio

Controls

text
The word that serves as the window. The longer it is, the smaller the letters, and past a few characters there is nothing to see inside them
size
Type size against the height of the frame. A long word shrinks itself to fit the width
weight
Stroke width on the font’s real axis. A thin letter is a narrow slit, a heavy one a wide opening — this is how much picture shows
centre x
A number from 0 to 1, 0.5 by default.
centre y
A number from 0 to 1, 0.5 by default.
invert
By default the letter is the window. Inverted it becomes a hole in the picture, and what reads is its absence
paper
A colour, #f4f1e8 by default.

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