Words off the page.
Paperform
A paper and motion typography studio. Design dimensional cards, animate words, and create shareable posters with fonts, stickers, textures, and custom colors.
“Think flat. Make loud.”
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Problem
Make expressive paper cards and animated typography approachable in one browser-based creative tool.
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Role
Product design, visual identity, interactive editing, animation rendering, and export workflows.
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Constraints
Run entirely in the browser without accounts, paid APIs, or a backend.
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Process
Built connected Fold and Motion workspaces with editable templates, a creative-material library, timeline controls, and shared rendering for card previews and image exports.
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Result
A standalone studio for interactive cards and animated posters, with local autosave, editable backups, share links, PNG and print exports, and browser-recorded video.
Experience highlights
- Ten distinct card templates, bundled fonts, stickers, textures, frames, and custom colors
- Wave, spring, liquid, and particle text effects with draggable layers and timeline controls
- Fold-linked animations, square and portrait posters, and landscape compositions
- Shareable designs, editable backups, PNG postcards, printable cards, and video exports
Engineering & performance
- CSS 3D fold previews and Canvas typography rendering
- Validated design imports and Unicode-safe share links
- Bundled fonts and shared card rendering for previews and exports
- Browser-native video recording with preview and cancellation
