Writing

A word processor that knows when to be quiet.

Typenik has the styles, footnotes and tables you’d expect from a word processor. It just doesn’t make a fuss about them. Open a document and you see a page, your words and a slim toolbar you can hide.

The Typenik editor with a chapter of a novel open

Comfort

Focus when you need it. Dark when it’s late.

Focus mode hides the toolbars and the status line, leaving only your text, and keeps the line you’re writing at eye level instead of letting it creep down the screen. Move the pointer to the edge and the tools come back; press Esc to leave.

Dim other paragraphs to see one thought at a time
Light and dark themes, remembered in each browser
Full screen and zoom for long sessions

The editor in dark mode, with every paragraph except the current one dimmed — The dark theme with other paragraphs dimmed.

Formatting

All the structure, none of the clutter.

Everything that gives a piece its shape is here, and all of it survives the trip to Word, LibreOffice, Markdown and the web.

An article's title, a short standfirst and a blue heading, each in its own style

Paragraph styles

Title, five levels of heading, Quote and Code – which keeps every space exactly as you typed it. Each looks the way the document’s layout says.

The formatting menu with strikethrough, superscript, subscript, horizontal rule and page break, each with its shortcut

Character styles and breaks

Bold, italic and underline on the toolbar; strikethrough, superscript, subscript, rules and page breaks a click or a shortcut away.

A kit list with a second-level list indented under one of its items

Lists nine levels deep

Bulleted and numbered. Tab indents an item and Shift+Tab brings it back, and Word gets real bullets and numbers.

The footnote box with the text Company annual report, 2016, p. 34 and Delete footnote and Done buttons

Footnotes

Numbered for you and kept with their text when you move it. Click a number to edit its note; exports get real footnotes.

The Insert or edit link box, with link text and a web address filled in

Links

Add one from the toolbar, or type it the Markdown way. Kept when you save, export and paste, and clickable in every format that allows it.

A table of e-reader and tablet sales with a shaded header row

Tables

With a header row, optional shading and five styles of lines, set in their own font and size.

Alignment and indents

Left, centred, right and justified, with tabs and indented paragraphs.

Page breaks

Press Ctrl+Enter, or start every chapter on a new page when you export.

Clean pasting

Paste from a web page or another program and keep the structure – but not its fonts and colours.

Tables that behave.

Insert a table, then use the Table menu to add or remove rows and columns, turn the header row on or off, shade it, and choose from five styles of lines: all lines, outside and header, horizontal lines, header line only, or none. Tab moves from cell to cell and adds a row at the end.

Tables go to Word and OpenDocument as real tables, and come back from them – and from Markdown and web pages – the same way.

A table of e-reader and tablet sales in a Typenik document, with the Table menu open showing insert, delete, header and line options — The Table menu, with horizontal lines chosen.

Typing shortcuts

Format without lifting your hands.

Typenik understands a little Markdown as you type, and quietly fixes the typography you’d otherwise fix later. Press ? at any time to see every shortcut.

The Keyboard shortcuts window listing shortcuts for saving, exporting, finding, formatting and moving sections

Type	And you get
`#` `Space` … `#####` `Space`	Headings 1 to 5
`-` `Space` or `1.` `Space`	A bulleted or numbered list
`words` and `words`	Bold and italic
`[text](https://…)`	A link
`--` and `---`	An en dash – and an em dash —
`...`	An ellipsis …
`"` and `'`	Curly quotes, opening or closing as needed
`Ctrl`+`F` · `Ctrl`+`E` · `?`	Find, export, and every shortcut

Layout and fonts

Looks the same on your screen and in their Word.

Every document keeps its own layout: a font and size for body text, the title, headings, quotes, code, footnotes and tables, plus the space between paragraphs. Set it once for all new documents, or change it for one piece.

Typenik comes with seven fonts, and several share their letter widths with fonts from Microsoft Office, so lines and pages break where they would in Word. Exports carry the fonts inside the file.

The New document layout settings, with a font and size for each style and a live preview — Settings → New document layout, with its live preview.

Font	Kind	Same letter widths as
Caladea	Serif · the default	Cambria
Liberation Serif	Serif	Times New Roman – the usual manuscript font
Lora	Serif · a warm book face	–
Carlito	Sans-serif · the default	Calibri, Word’s usual font
Liberation Sans	Sans-serif	Arial and Helvetica
Inter	Sans-serif · made for screens	–
Liberation Mono	Monospaced · for code	Courier New

Keeping count

Helpful, never naggy.

Targets

Give a document a word-count target and watch the bar fill in the status line.

Statistics

Words, characters, paragraphs, sentences and reading time, words this session and today, and about how many pages it will fill once exported.

A paragraph in which one long sentence has a dotted violet underline

Long sentences

Switch it on and sentences of 35 words or more get a dotted violet underline; at 50, a solid one. Never saved, never exported.

Spelling, when you ask

Off by default, so your first draft isn’t covered in red. One click on the status line turns your browser’s own checker on.

The find bar searching for salt, with Find All listing three matches and the words around them

Find and replace

Find the next match, list them all with the words around them, then replace one or replace all.

The Tags box with the tags draft and novel