What is IL-VERSE?

IL-VERSE is an experimental visual poetry and typography editor that lets you place letters on a canvas with collision detection. Letters are "dropped" in a chosen direction until they hit other letters or the canvas edge.

Keyboard shortcuts

Navigation

• ←/→/↑/↓ - Move grid cursor
• Shift + ←/→/↑/↓ - Set drop direction

Placing glyphs

• Enter - Drop glyph
• Space - Drop space glyph (TYPING MODE) or select space (DROP MODE)
• Tab - Place space glyph at cursor position
• Left Click - Drop glyph at set direction
• Right Click - Place glyph exactly at cursor (with no collision)
• Backspace - Delete glyph highlighted in red
• Any character - Select glyph (DROP MODE) or drop (TYPING MODE MODE)

View controls

• Cmd/Ctrl + S - Toggle grid snap
• Cmd/Ctrl + G - Toggle grid visibility
• Cmd/Ctrl + I - Toggle invisible mode
• Cmd/Ctrl + H - Toggle bounding boxes (DROP MODE)

Glyph transform

• Cmd/Ctrl + R - Rotate next drop
• Cmd/Ctrl + F - Flip next drop
• Cmd/Ctrl + M - Mirror next drop

Grid size

• Alt + ←/→ - Decrease/increase grid cell size in horizontal axis
• Alt + ↑/↓ - Decrease/increase grid cell size in vertical axis

Font size & tracking

• Cmd/Ctrl + - - Decrease font size
• Cmd/Ctrl + + - Increase font size
• Cmd/Ctrl + k - Decrease tracking
• Cmd/Ctrl + l - Increase tracking

Modes

• Cmd/Ctrl + A - Toggle auto-drop mode

History

• Cmd/Ctrl + Z - Undo
• Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z - Redo

Output license

You can use files you create with Il—Verse for anything (personal, educational, commercial) except those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens ("NFT"), crypto, web3 or blockchain-related projects.

No attribution required, but if you'd like to:

Created with Il-Verse (https://hlnet.neocities.org/il-verse), a tool made by Heikki Lotvonen (https://heikkilotvonen.com)

Output is provided as-is, no warranty.