Fill a shape with words
Draw a rectangle, circle, diamond or Bézier guide, paste your text, and Kelk scatters the words inside — with angle and size ranges, random colours and Pen Trace effects.
Calligraphy studio · in your browser
Type a word. Kelk gives it a calligrapher’s hand.
Kelk shapes every word with a real calligraphic font, then lets you place, stretch, join, colour and export it as artwork — true vector, ready for print.
Kashida +3
Export SVG · PDF · AI
Pen trace · Ink
Nastaliq · 72pt · X 104.2 mm
The reed pen
The reed pen,
The reed pen,
reborn in
your browser.
Type a word. Kelk shapes it with a true calligraphic font, then lets you place, stretch, join, colour and export every word as finished artwork — Nastaliq, Naskh, Thuluth and beyond.
01 · The screenOne quiet canvas.
One quiet canvas.
Every tool within reach.
A dark page with millimetre rulers and a dashed baseline. Tools to the left, settings to the right, seven toolbar groups below — and a status bar that always tells you what is selected.
Real screenshot · the workspace, with numbered callouts from the user guide
- 1
☰ Tools panel
Project, Cloud, Glyph, Transform, Fill & Stroke, Effects, Insert Image.
- 2
Font, Style, Size
Applies to what you type next — and to whatever is selected.
- 3
You · Log Out
Unsaved work? Kelk asks before you leave. Next login is a clean slate.
- 4
Notifications
Shared projects, messages and gallery news — each with its own chime.
- 5
⚙ Settings panel
Page Setup, Canvas Style, Guides, Preferences, Hotkeys, Export, About.
- 6
The page
Your artwork area. The dashed line is the baseline text sits on.
- 7
Bottom toolbar
File, View, History, Edit, Arrange, Text, Spacing.
- 8
Status · left
Page size in mm, zoom level and whether kerning is on.
- 9
Status · right
Tells you exactly what is selected.
02 · WorkflowFrom a single word
From a single word
to a finished panel.
The way calligraphers actually work: write, place, refine, finish. Six movements, no detours.
- 01
Choose your pen
Pick a font, its style and point size in the top bar. They apply to what you type next, and to anything selected.
Font · Style · Size - 02
Select a baseline
Click the dashed line your text will sit on. New words attach to the selected baseline.
Click the baseline - 03
Type & apply
Open Edit Text, write right-to-left and press Apply. Kelk’s shaping server returns the correct letter forms and places each word.
Text → Edit Text → Apply - 04
Refine the line
Kashida, joiner, alternate shapes, diacritics, spacing and size — adjust word by word, with Undo always one key away.
Ctrl + Z - 05
Colour & finish
Fill & Stroke, pen-trace ink, gradients and layered effects. Save a look as a template and reuse it anywhere.
Fill · Stroke · Effects - 06
Save or export
Keep the project in a file or in Cloud Projects, share it, or export PNG, SVG, PDF or AI.
⚙ → Export
03 · Live previewFeel the pen
Feel the pen
before you open the studio.
Type your own words, pick a pen, stretch them with kashida, then fill and finish them. In Kelk, the More Kashida tool adds a tatweel with each click — and beeps when a word can stretch no further.
Font
Kashida +2
Size 96 pt
Fill
Colour
Effects
Canvas theme
Browser preview with web fonts. In Kelk, words are shaped by its server with your own calligraphic fonts.
04 · The toolsA reed pen’s craft,
A reed pen’s craft,
rebuilt for the screen.
Words stay words. Retype a line, rebuild an item after a font fix, swap alternate shapes, join two words into one — nothing else on the page moves.
Fill & Stroke
Ink, gold, gradient — or the hand itself
Pen trace gives each glyph its own natural ink density. Save any look as a template.
ColorPatternImagePen traceGradientEmpty
Stack them all
Kashida, one click at a time
Stretch the connection of any word. Kelk beeps when a word cannot stretch further — the line stays true to the font.
Join. Split. Re-shape.
In Kelk, a left-click joins a word with the next one, shaped as one; a right-click splits it again.
Turn a line on its pin
Every attached word turns with it. Drag the orange cross to pick the pivot.
Many pages, one project
کلک
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The reed is called kelk. Now it lives in your browser.FAST · PRECISE · RIGHT-TO-LEFT BY NATURE
05 · The guide, in briefSeven groups.
Seven groups.
One toolbar.
Click a group to open its tools. Hover any tool for its name — or pick the ❓ Help tool and click anything to learn what it does, without changing a thing.
- ❓ Help toolThe pointer becomes a question mark. Click anything to see what it is.
- NewClears the canvas and reloads your defaults. Ctrl keeps settings, Shift resets to factory.
- Clear CanvasClears the artwork only and keeps every setting.
- Open · SaveOpen a project file, or save straight back to it.
- Save to CloudOpens the Cloud Projects dialog.
06 · Export
Out of the browser,
Out of the browser,
into the world.
Glyphs, groups, images, PDF pages and the page border are included. Guides, baselines and lock icons never are. Multi-page projects export every page in one go.
PNGA picture, cropped to your artwork.RASTER
SVGTrue vector paths, editable in any vector editor.VECTOR
PDFTrue vector, ready for print. All pages in one file.VECTOR
AIOpens in Illustrator as an editable document.VECTOR
07 · GalleryA thousand years
A thousand years
of line and breath.
The tradition Kelk is built for, beside type studies rendered live on this page. Inside the app, the shared Gallery lets artists publish and browse finished work by artist and subject.
عشق
نور
صبر
قلم
Artwork made with Kelk
08 · Save, cloud, shareYour work, wherever
Your work, wherever
you sign in.
Save to a file that opens on any computer, or keep projects in folders in your account — then share, message and publish.
Cloud Projects
Folders, Save to Cloud, and no more silent overwrites — Kelk asks before replacing a project with the same name.
Share & message
Share a project with a person; they get a 🔔 and find it under Shared with me. Write to any user and get a reply.
The Gallery
Browse artists by subject. Share your piece as look-only or open-a-copy, and grant access to named people later.
☰Kelk
قلم
09 · Phone & tablet
Calligraphy
Calligraphy
at your fingertips.
Touch controls switch on as soon as a touch screen is used. A floating action bar replaces the keyboard and the right mouse button.
- Tap or dragSelects and moves, like a mouse.
- Double-tapUnlocks a baseline’s rotate handle or a glyph’s resize handles.
- Two-finger pinchZooms around the point between your fingers.
- Multi · Ctrl · AltAct as if the key were held for your next touches.
10 · Shortcuts
Keys for the quick hand.
Every tool can have its own hotkey — open Hotkeys in the right panel, press a combination, done.
V
Select toolH
Pan toolM
Measure toolCtrlZ
UndoCtrl⇧Z
Redo (or Ctrl + Y)Altclick
Cycle through stacked objects←↑→↓
Nudge 1 px · 10 px with ShiftPgUpPgDn
Previous / next page11 · Troubleshooting
Good questions.
Straight from the user guide.
The text did not appear after Apply
Check that a font is chosen in the top bar and that you are logged in. Text is shaped by a server, so it needs a working connection — wait for the busy pointer to finish.
The kashida disappeared after I changed the font
This is intended. Another font may not have the same stretching, so Kelk removes kashida when the font changes. Add it again with the Kashida tool.
I cannot overwrite a file with Save in Firefox or Safari
Those browsers cannot write back to a file, so each Save downloads a new copy. Use Chrome or Edge for direct saving, or use Cloud Projects.
A word stayed as it was after Join or Split
If the shaping server cannot build the new form, Kelk keeps your original word and shows a message. Try again, or change the text slightly with Edit Text.
Guides are not in my exported file
This is intended. Guides, baselines and lock icons are never exported.
My Canvas Style theme or template is missing
They are stored per account in your browser and in your Preferences. Log in with the same account, or click Load from Account in Preferences.
The touch bar does not appear
Open Preferences and set Touch controls (this device) to On.
I lost unsaved work
Kelk asks before Log Out, New, Clear Canvas and Open. Try Undo first (Ctrl + Z) — and save often with Save or Save to Cloud.
12 · Contact
Write to
Write to
the studio.
Licensing for your school or studio, a question about fonts, or a piece for the gallery — send a note and the Kelk team will reply.
Or write to kelkadmin@sinasoft.us
Begin
Begin with
a single word.
a single word.
Sign in, type, apply. Your first line of calligraphy is a minute away.
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