Playground

Paste prose. Pick a face. See it set.

Settings

Font
Drop cap
Hyphenation
Measure

How many characters fit on a line before it wraps — like a newspaper column. 65 is the classic book measure.

Line height

The space between lines, as a multiple of the type size. 1.55 is a comfortable book setting.

Output

Editor

Markdown in. The typeset preview updates as you type.

Preview

The cheapest signal a writer can send is the one buried in their type. Set the same paragraph in two faces and the reader feels two different writers — one calmer, one more insistent — without ever naming the difference. Editorial typography is the part of writing that travels under the words, doing its work before the reader knows there was work to do, and Pilcrow exists to put that work back in reach for the open web.