Choreoglyphs
choreoglyphs.com- Category
- Entertainment
- Rank
- No. 217Apps board
Previous survey · No. 206 ·
- Type
- TOOL
- Date
About
An interactive site that visualizes the invisible movement shapes made when swipe-typing a word on a phone keyboard, framing each swipe path as a hidden written notation analogous to how handwriting shapes each letter. Users can type words in several languages and watch the resulting gesture rendered and animated as a glyph.
At a glance
Choreoglyphs draws the path a word traces across a phone-style keyboard. Type a phrase and each word becomes a curved shape connecting its letters; animation reveals the movement. It makes an everyday gesture visible, rather than installing a new keyboard or changing how your phone types.
Good fit
Worth a short visit if you enjoy typography, gesture or visual language. Comparing the same phrase across keyboard layouts gives the artwork a concrete idea to explore. The browser test drew and animated “hello world”; switching from EN to FR kept the words while changing the chosen layout.
Consider something else when
You need a working swipe keyboard, a typing-speed trainer or an exact recording of your finger’s movement. The renderer derives points from letter positions in a selected layout. It illustrates a possible gesture rather than measuring an actual swipe.
Start here
Replace the sample passage with a short phrase, press animate and compare two layout choices. Use hide text to view the shapes without labels, then restore the labels to connect shapes with words. Start with familiar words so you can follow their movement across the keyboard.
Cost and requirements
The public browser experiment opens without an account or payment. Its selector offers thirteen layouts, including EN, FR, DE and RU. Selecting a layout changes the drawing; it does not translate the phrase or change your device’s keyboard settings.
Limits to know
Punctuation and unsupported characters do not become a complete written code, and different words can have ambiguous paths. Sharing constructs a URL containing the words and layout. Hiding the visible labels does not make that link confidential. The page also loads analytics scripts, so the drawing’s local rendering should not be described as a privacy guarantee.
Sources checked 2026-10-30. Source-based assessment.
Why it made the leaderboard
Makes visible a writing system that already exists in swipe-typing gestures but that nobody has actually seen before, a novel and immediately explorable idea across a dozen languages.
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