Ink Weight guide

Start

The tool opens with the sample in kanji, the Crow words, and lets it settle once as a short rain of light characters on a dark paper. The line under Layout counts the cells.

What you need

• A current browser. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all work. No GPU is needed.
• A picture, if you want your own: one bright subject on a darker ground reads best. Any picture your browser can open works.

Your first result

1. Open Ink Weight. The sample is already written.
2. Press Image A to open a picture, or drop one on the frame. Or press Try the sample.
3. Under Words, pick a script (Kanji, Devanagari, Tamil, Latin or Symbols) and the set your picture is made of, or press Your own and type the characters.
4. Move Ground until the background falls away, and Columns for more or less detail.
5. At the top of the panel, press Save PNG, or Save SVG, Copy text, Save .txt or Record video.

Good to know

• The line under Words shows the characters in use, light to heavy, and says how many there are and how much ink the lightest and the heaviest carry.
• Characters your device cannot draw are left out without a word. If fewer than three are left, the Crow words are used and the line says so.
• Under Motion, pick Rain, Write, Gather or Breathe and press Play to see it; Record video saves one take.
• Raise Haze for a faint field of light characters behind the subject; set it to 0 for a clean ground.
• Your own words stay on this device for your next visit, and nowhere else.
• Your picture is kept on this device, and every lab tool that takes a picture opens with it, until you press × on its tile.
• On a phone the controls sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the bar to open them. Columns opens at 64 there and stops at 120.