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A fresh spin in online book writing. typWrittr is designed to be as minimalistic as possible, but features high customizability, cloud storage and "Inspirational presets". Feels like you've been teleported into story with your good old typewriter.

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You should try to add an open demo, and only request an email sign up when the user try to save or export the file (or a prompt after X minutes of use). I am not sure people are ready to sign up just to try a text editor.

A couple of questions:

1. Was it a conscious choice to only offer up monospaced fonts?

2. I can't find a way to close the "cabinet" after I open it to access my list of notes: is this a bug, or am I missing something obvious?

3. Any change you have the source code up somewhere?

Thanks btw, looks nice!

1. yes, monospaced fonts reminds me ones on typewriters. 2. just press the same button that opens cabinet. 3. in public repo - no (

Are the mono font's hard-coded? i.e. font-family: "custom font" vs. font-family: "monospace"

they are preloaded on demand. Cannot reply more, but I get your point. No, fonts are used only that are defined by me, but I your idea of using system-defined monospace font sound as 'feature to add' to me =)

right, but does it use the default monospace fonts set by the user or do you set your own?

For example, my default monospace font is Source Code Pro - will it use my font or your own (if any)

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