Lineolar

v0.1.0

Any image in, editable vector hatching out. None of it leaves your browser.

Hints

Remove backgroundKeeps only the subject, and the hatch follows its silhouette. First use downloads the finder.

Up and down move the point, left and right move it along the tones, Delete removes it, Enter adds one.

Auto levelsStretches the image's own black and white points first, so a flat source still engraves.

Invert tonesFlips light and dark: the hatch then describes the highlights.

Softness

Blurs the source first, so noise and fine detail stop breaking the strokes into specks.

Contrast

neutral

Spreads or compresses tones around mid-gray. The main lever on how much ink the image takes.

Midtones

neutral

Bends the middle grays with black and bare background held in place, which is what Contrast cannot do.

Highlights

25% open

How much of the lights is left bare, showing the background. Raise it to open the highlights up.

Stroke count

165 strokes

How fine the hatch is, in strokes across the short side. Thickness scales with the gap, so the grays never move.

Stroke weight

60%

Thickens every stroke without touching the spacing: more ink, same mesh.

Angle

60°

Direction of the hatch. Align it with the subject's main form and the strokes describe volume instead of filling it.

Wave

75%

Ripples each stroke off its straight path. A little kills the mechanical look, a lot reads as guilloche.

Stroke drift

45%

Breaks the spacing off the ruler, so no two gaps are equal. It is also what stops the trame beating into moiré when the plate is seen small.

Cross-hatch

50%

How far up the tones the crossing hatch reaches, from the shadows into the midtones.

Solid shadows

50%

Lets strokes swell past their spacing in the deepest passages until they merge into a flat.

DrawingDraws the lines inside the picture, like folds or the arête of a nose, in the same ink. First use downloads a model.

Fineness

Strands

How closely the model reads, from the big forms to single strands of hair. Each step downloads once.

Drop shortest

12%

Leaves out the shortest curves the model drew, as a share of them: the specks go and the folds stay, on any picture.

Drop longest

keep all

Leaves out the longest ones: usually the silhouette, which Subject already draws. A share, so it reaches past the few longest.

Line width

0.5× stroke

How thick the drawn lines are, in hatch strokes. At 1 they read as part of the engraving.

TonalLets each drawn line thicken in the shadows and thin in the lights. Off, it holds one width.

BorderDraws an ink band along the edge of the plate: its rectangle, or the cut-out's silhouette.

Band width

1.0× stroke

How thick the frame is, in hatch strokes. At 1 it is exactly as thick as the strokes beside it.

Vignette

How hard the rim is treated: the hatch dissolves into the background, or swells with Dark vignette on.

Vignette reach

45%

How far in it reaches. It scales with the vignette itself, so a faint edge is a narrow one.

TonalHands the edge to the picture: thick in the darks, thin in the lights. Off, it is even all the way round.

Dark vignetteSwells the hatch toward the border instead of dissolving it, so the rim goes dark.

Hatch

Cross & lines

Background

Export

Path detail

55%

Trades file size against fidelity: coarser points on the left, faithful curves and a heavier SVG on the right.