Visual flourish distracts. The power is in the writing.
Bare shapes a headline, a tagline, a paragraph — and lets you draw the typeface it is set in. Not a word processor: no table of contents, no footnotes, no page numbers.
Runs in the browser. No account needed — create one to keep projects on the server.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Every printable character of Basic Latin, drawn and spaced — letters, figures,
punctuation and symbols, down to ^, ` and
~. Other alphabets are a setting waiting to be built, not a
special case bolted on.
- Text /text
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Freely positioned blocks on a canvas. Select several and edit their shared values at once; alignment guides snap to the others while you drag.
Size · line height · letter, word and paragraph spacing · indent · alignment · case · named styles · liga, kern, salt, ss01, tnum, onum · SVG export with real outlines · copy as HTML/CSS
- Font /font
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Draw glyphs from scratch or import a typeface and change it. 96 glyphs are already drawn, so nothing starts from an empty screen.
Pen · freehand with curve fitting · rectangle · ellipse · knife · measure · weight, width, slant and contrast as live parameters · Thin to Black plus italics in one click · ligatures, alternates, stylistic sets · kerning · TTF, OTF, WOFF
TTF and OTF are written byte by byte in this codebase. No font library does the
writing — opentype.js is used only to read the fonts you import.
- glyf / loca
- cubic → quadratic, flag compression, short-vector packing
- CFF
- Type 2 charstrings, our own DICT and INDEX encoder
- cmap
- format 4, plus format 12 when the charset needs it
- GSUB
- ligatures, alternates, stylistic sets
- GPOS + kern
- pair adjustment, modern and legacy
- WOFF
- per-table deflate
Every build is checked by reading the compiled file back and comparing outlines, advances, kerning, features and contour direction against the source.
A username and a password is the whole account — Bare does not ask for an email. Create one, or carry on without one.