Tools

Web folklore tools

edit this list here: Web folklore tools

This will be an amazing list of tools

• https://glyphdrawing.club
• https://grid-drawing-club.netlify.app
• http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=hello
• http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html
• https://patorjk.com/software/taag/
• https://changaco.oy.lc/unicode-progress-bars/
• https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/
• https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker

• https://beyondloom.com/tools/ditherpaint.html

• https://constraint.systems/ * tools!
• https://www.tooooools.app/
• https://kidpix.app/
• https://boockup.marco.land/
• https://cpreid2.github.io/blobSketch/
• https://nightphilosophy.github.io/avocado/
  
• https://draw-it-with-others.org/ DIWO tools ✨
• https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/
• https://asdf.us/asciiblaster/
• https://halftone.xoihazard.com/
• https://shoebby.itch.io/visunovos

Serious typesetting tools

edit this page here: Typesetting tools

plus, a list of historic typesetting tools: Typesetting tools/Timelines

Canvas tools

• Scribus https://www.scribus.net/
• Inkscape http://inkscape.org/
• Laidout https://laidout.org/
• Electric Zine Maker https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker

Engines tools

CSS Print based (CSS Print)

• your browser (based on the supported CSS Print properties by that browser): use CTRL+P/CMD+P
• Weasyprint https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/
• Paged.js https://www.pagedjs.org/
• wkhtmltopdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
• OSPKit (CSS Regions legacy support!) http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/

P5.js based

• genzine https://github.com/munusshih/p5.genzine by Munus Shih and Iley Cao

Python based

• rinohtype http://www.mos6581.org/rinohtype/master/
• ReportLab https://www.reportlab.com/
• Flat http://xxyxyz.org/flat/
• PyX https://pyx-project.org/ (outputs to PostScript, PDF and SVG)

TeX based

• TeX https://tug.org/ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
• LaTeX https://www.latex-project.org/
• ConTeXt https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
• texinfo https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Short-Sample-Texinfo-File.html
• tectonic https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/
• lyx https://www.lyx.org/

XML based

• speedata https://showcase.speedata.de/en/

Misc

• PostScript https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript.html
• groff https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
• SILE https://sile-typesetter.org/ (LaTeX-like)
• typst https://typst.app/ (custom markdown syntax)
• SATySFi https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi (LaTeX-like + OCaml-like)
• Patoline https://patoline.github.io/ (wiki/LaTeX/Ocaml-like)

Image editing tools

• https://imagemagick.org

Dithering tools:

• https://www.stochaster.org/
• https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/stipplegen2/
• https://beyondloom.com/tools/ditherpaint.html

Other lists!

• https://tinytools.directory/ → zines/books + print
• https://polytype.dev/ (a rosetta's stone for typesetting tools, quick demo's of many different typesetting tools)
• https://radicalweb.design/recherche/websites/ by Julien Bidoret
• https://ourcollaborative.tools/en/projects EU funded research project Digital Tools for Creative Collaboration by random(lab) at EDADSE in St-Etiène/Lyon icw EKA, HfG and BEDA (2020-2023)