Hey everyone! I'm Charlie. A designer and developer, and today I'm launching Letterbox.
I've always loved typography as a visual art form, not just a way to read words. Letterbox lets you explore that idea: each letter on screen is actually composed of hundreds of tiny characters, creating these dense, textural compositions.
You can pick from a curated set of fonts, dial in your colors, adjust fill density and columns, and every unique design is encoded in the URL so you can share it instantly.
It's completely free, no account needed, and works on desktop and mobile. Would love to see what combinations you come up with!
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@charlie_clark Played around with this for way too long. Cranking the fill size down makes each letter almost abstract, like a texture more than text. Bookmarked a few URL combos I want to steal for slide decks.
A lot of “type toy” tools get used as screenshots; what’s your intended path from a Letterbox experiment to a production asset (social graphic, poster, landing hero), and what export/quality constraints have you prioritized or deliberately avoided so far?
@curiouskitty I haven't built any export functionality, and still thinking about the best way to do this. What I'm thinking:
quickly export individual letters as images (with or without the background color)
export an entire set of letters to a .zip
embeddable interactive component
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Love the creative angle here .Tools like this make typography feel more playful instead of rigid .Curious how much control users have over spacing and layout.
@gabe haha thanks Gabe ❤️ Export/embed coming soon!
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Hey Charlie, that idea of typography as visual art, not just words to read, is a cool lens. Was there a specific moment where you looked at a letter or a font and thought wait, this is beautiful on its own, not just because of what it says?
Just had a play around with this for ages. Love the interactive hover on the letters and the more creative concept, feels like the opposite of every generic newsletter tool out there. The little design details matter way more than people give them credit for.
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Hey everyone! I'm Charlie. A designer and developer, and today I'm launching Letterbox.
I've always loved typography as a visual art form, not just a way to read words. Letterbox lets you explore that idea: each letter on screen is actually composed of hundreds of tiny characters, creating these dense, textural compositions.
You can pick from a curated set of fonts, dial in your colors, adjust fill density and columns, and every unique design is encoded in the URL so you can share it instantly.
It's completely free, no account needed, and works on desktop and mobile. Would love to see what combinations you come up with!
@charlie_clark Played around with this for way too long. Cranking the fill size down makes each letter almost abstract, like a texture more than text. Bookmarked a few URL combos I want to steal for slide decks.
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@whetlan glad you enjoyed it!
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@curiouskitty I haven't built any export functionality, and still thinking about the best way to do this. What I'm thinking:
quickly export individual letters as images (with or without the background color)
export an entire set of letters to a .zip
embeddable interactive component
Love the creative angle here .Tools like this make typography feel more playful instead of rigid .Curious how much control users have over spacing and layout.
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@joshua_hayes3 fill size + font weight gives you quite a bit of control over the spacing within the letters
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WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD AT MAKING PRETTY, FUN THINGS.
Congrats on the launch, @charlie_clark! Now.... how do I get these letters onto my projects/sites.
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@gabe haha thanks Gabe ❤️ Export/embed coming soon!
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@vouchy Some fonts are just so beautiful that they definitely make me think that way. The playfair display "Q" (in Italic) is definitely one of those
I like how I can play with fonts and colors but I’d love more control over spacing and density to refine the look.
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@steven_granata do you mean spacing between the letters? or within the letters?
@charlie_clark Spacing between the letters
Just had a play around with this for ages. Love the interactive hover on the letters and the more creative concept, feels like the opposite of every generic newsletter tool out there. The little design details matter way more than people give them credit for.
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@maria_fitzpatrick micro-interactions ftw!