Ink Weight guide

Three looks

Each picture below was made in Ink Weight from its own sample, after pressing Try the sample. The table under each one is the whole recipe; everything not listed stays as the page opens.

The crow's words

The portrait written in heavy bird and night kanji, the dark around it nearly empty with faint light strokes — The Crow words on the sample, with Ground at 30 and Haze at 40.

The face, the neck and the collar are written in the heaviest characters of the set: crow, eagle, wing, feather, night. The dark around them is left empty, and the haze sets a scatter of light strokes back into it, faint, like trees behind the subject.

Setting	Value
Load and save	Try the sample
Script	Kanji
Ground	30
Haze	40

Lower Ground to bring the shoulders back, or set Haze to 0 for a clean ground.

Tamil, the Sea words

The portrait written in Tamil letters, dense letters on the face and neck, light marks in the shadows — The Tamil script, its first set, Sea, in Sans.

Tamil words for sea, wave, water, fish, salt, shore and pearl, with a few light marks, written across the portrait. Each letter is kept whole with its vowel sign; the tool measures each one's ink and sorts them, so the open letters fall in the shadows and the dense ones on the face and the neck. The spark turns to ௐ.

Setting	Value
Load and save	Try the sample
Script	Tamil
Font	Sans

Pick another set, or press Your own and type Tamil words of your own. The line under Words shows what the tool kept.

Two tones, written vertically

The portrait written in water kanji in vertical columns, the subject in pale ink and the haze in a cool blue — The Water words in Two tone with Vertical writing on, at 72 columns.

The columns run top to bottom and right to left, as a Japanese page is written, and stand a little apart. The subject is in the first ink; the haze behind it in the second, a cool blue.

Setting	Value
Load and save	Try the sample
Script	Kanji
Words	Water
Ink	Two tone
Vertical writing	On
Columns	72

Turn Vertical writing off to compare. Save .txt and Save SVG keep the same order.