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LINEmaker is the fruit of my labor to move my concrete poem series LINES from OpenOffice, where I was using the advanced font settings to create poems from letters smashed closely together (and taking advantage of some of OpenOffice’s glitches with this). Here are two of my favorite New LINES poems: 
The program takes this basic idea, but adds more interaction and options. It was coded in Processing and exported to javascrpt.
To use LINEmaker, you must first click in the canvas area to begin writing, then you can move the mouse horizontally to expand/condense the font spacing and vertically to adjust the transparency of the text.
Here are some screenshots from LINEmaker:
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Enjoy!
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