Text packing studio

Flavour Shape Rows

One line = one row. A space is an invisible separator glyph.

Type Font Weight

flex width stretch short rows even stems

Base width

Narrower base = bigger type. Rows only ever stretch up from here, and only the ones short of the edge.

Stretch limit Per-letter width Deviation Width seed

Method

Pose Tilt at edge Falloff Horizontal strength Vertical strength Depth at edge Align to radius Lens Depth spread

Depth spread moves letters toward and away from the lens without touching this render — it is exact, not approximate. Turn on the depth view below to see it.

Depth view show parallax ghost Orbit X 12° Orbit Y 0° Camera slide 0px sweep the camera show the raw slide

The ghost is the same solve seen from a moved camera, with the bulk motion subtracted so only the differences remain: the gap between a letter and its ghost is its depth relative to the others. A letter that sits still is at the average depth.

Orbit swings the camera around the artwork, which is what a camera in a 3D scene does — planes turn and foreshorten, so it answers "will this hold up when I move around it". Slide trucks the camera sideways instead: no rotation, so every letter shifts purely by its depth, which makes it the cleaner reading of the spread alone. Sweep traces an orbit through both angles. Nothing here reaches the export.

Packing Reading-order guard

Drag the handles on the artwork to move the field origin, its reach, and the tilt. Double-click the centre dot to recentre it.

Low = letters interlock hard across rows (busier, more interesting). High = each row stays clearly below the one above.

Letter gap Row gap 2D rotation Rotation seed Rows (0 = auto) Padding

Negative padding lets letters spill past the shape — pair it with “crop to shape”.

nest letters crop to shape shape

Randomness 3D jitter Pose seed Max solver rounds

A ceiling, not a target — the solver stops as soon as the layout settles. The readout shows how many it actually needed.

starting…

solving…