Playground
Everything on this page works, and all of it runs on your own device.
Move across the letters, or tap them.Pencil of Nature, a creative studio.
Make a sun print
A plant lies on paper brushed with sensitiser, waiting for light.
Anna Atkins published the first book illustrated with photographs in 1843, by laying seaweed on cyanotype paper in daylight. This plant grows from a rule, and the paper’s chemistry is simulated, but the order of the steps is hers.
Turn a word into a window
Mix a colour system
Palettes in OKLCH, with real contrast ratios, ready to paste into a stylesheet.
Each step has the same perceptual lightness across hues, computed in OKLCH. Press a swatch to copy it.
The bench
Choose a piece above to run it here.