Pretext Lab

A course in typographic fluency — thirty-one lessons across ten arcs, plus a community gallery, showing what becomes possible when you can measure and lay out multiline text without the DOM. Built on Cheng Lou's @chenglou/pretext.

Arc 1
Mental Model
Arc 2
Basic Measurement
Arc 3
Whitespace & Breaks
Arc 4
Multilingual
Arc 5
Rich Inline
Arc 6
Manual Layout
Arc 7
Rendering Targets
Arc 8
Production Patterns
Arc 9 · Kinetic & Organic
Beyond the Rectangle
Arc 10 · Frontier & Standards
Where this lands
◉ Appendix
Community & Frontier
Thirty-one lessons across ten arcs, plus a community gallery. Navigate linearly (/ on any lesson page), or jump by effect from the sidebar.