# penora

> Satyajit Ghana — Head of Engineering @ Inkers Technology
> canonical: https://ai.thesatyajit.com/projects/penora
> stack: TypeScript, React, Canvas, npm package
> repo: https://github.com/satyajitghana/penora

Type a string and penora animates it into natural handwriting — not a font fade-in, but
stroke-by-stroke drawing driven by the glyph contours, with pen physics layered on top:
pressure tapering at stroke ends, seeded jitter so each render is subtly different, and
micro-wobble for that hand-drawn quality. Export the result as video or GIF.

Shipped as an npm package (`npm i penora`) and as a shadcn registry component you can drop
straight into a project. It's the kind of small, self-contained library that's satisfying
to build: a tight problem (make text look handwritten and *alive*) with a lot of room for
craft in the details.