A curated directory of demos, games, tutorials, integrations, and creative experiments built with Pretext — Cheng Lou's 15KB zero-dependency text layout engine that uses Canvas measureText() instead of the DOM.
Community project — not affiliated with Cheng Lou or the official Pretext project. Submit a project →
Playable games built entirely with Pretext text-layout primitives.
Visual spectacles: ASCII art, particle effects, cinematic crawls — all typeset by Pretext.
The legendary Bad Apple!! shadow art PV reimagined as real-time ASCII text animation — iconic silhouettes rendered entirely with text glyphs.
Interactive ASCII dragon, physics-driven letters, fire breathing, 3D text tunnel, and multiple modes in one sandbox.
The iconic opening crawl recreated with perspective text animation and Pretext layout.
Type your ad hook and watch it come alive with kinetic typography — typewriter, wave, bounce, glitch, and fade effects. Inspired by Pretext's fast text rendering.
Hands-on sandboxes and interactive UI experiments.
Experimental bundles, editorial layouts, and creative explorations.
Five polished demos: editorial engine, fluid smoke ASCII, justification comparison, variable typographic ASCII, and shrinkwrap showdown.
Multi-column editorial layout flowing around an animated analog clock.
Eleven demos including Dragon animation, Anime Walk, Masonry layout, editorial engine, and variable ASCII art.
Text that shatters — explosive particle effects powered by Pretext layout.
Beat-driven lyric animation synced to music — upload audio and watch Pretext-powered text dance to the rhythm.
Three experiments: black-hole text singularity, liquid dashboard grid, and draw-to-fill text vessels.
Medieval illuminated manuscript with an animated dragon and live text reflow.
News-style flowing text layout with a comparison shim for benchmarking.
Text as ocean waves — words flowing with wrap geometry in a Pretext canvas scene.
Minimal world-model interface powered by DOM-free text measurement.
TensorFlow.js face tracking drives real-time Pretext typography (webcam required).
DOM vs Pretext — side-by-side speed comparisons.
Community demos hosted elsewhere.
Authoritative examples from the library creator — accordion, bubbles, dynamic layout, ASCII art, and more.
The viral dragon animation that flows through paragraphs of text.
Original hosted Breakout game built with Pretext.
Pretext's killer use case: knowing a streaming token's final width before the DOM sees it. Read more →
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