InkForge turns typed text, markdown, and audio into realistic handwritten pages directly on HTML5 canvases. Seeded muscle fatigue, fluid capillary bleed, and physical paper textures execute client-side with zero server dependencies.
Mechanical fonts repeat identical vector glyphs. InkForge applies seeded random variations to simulate muscle drift, pen pressure, and ink bleed against paper fibers.
Tools designed for scholars, technical authors, and creators who need realistic physical note output.
Seeded mulberry32 generation ensures pages re-render with identical coordinates across sessions
while producing per-character rotation, scaling, and shear variance.
Eleven paper styles including legal ruled, engineering graph, dotted journal, and Cornell layouts with dedicated cue columns and procedural grain noise.
Pressure-mapped pen and highlighter with multiply blending, ray-casting lasso selection, and 400ms hold-to-snap geometric gesture recognition.
HandFonted studio traces hand-drawn strokes or scanned worksheets with Ramer-Douglas-Peucker smoothing, compiling standard OpenType TTF binaries directly in memory.
Export multi-page documents at 2× DPI with Compact, Standard, and High compression presets, transparent vector SVGs, and direct clipboard bitmap transfer.
Transcribe real-world handwritten pages into Markdown with offline Tesseract, 3×3 Laplacian edge sharpening, and rule-of-thirds region cropping.
Engineered without frontend frameworks for high frame rates and minimal memory overhead.
Modular architecture without runtime virtual-DOM abstractions. Clean separation of layout, rendering, vector annotation, and state management.
Sub-pixel coordinate positioning, custom transform matrices, dirty-page hashing, and persistent IntersectionObserver page recycling.
Lightweight settings sync through localStorage, while full notebook trees and high-resolution glyph curves persist in browser IndexedDB.
451 automated unit tests across 34 suites and 18 Playwright end-to-end specs verify every release against regressions.
Detailed technical specifications, math foundations, and engine manuals.
Built with a passion for classical typography, digital craftsmanship, and privacy-first web software. InkForge is fully open-source and welcoming to community contributions, font additions, and paper styles.