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Optional softer look for marks (neat-annotations style)? #3
Description
We made a softer look for marks, based on neat-annotations: soft colors, handwritten labels, thin arrows and see-through outlines. Would you want AInotate to support it?
Current look
Neat look: same marks, but the UI underneath stays the main thing.
Current look
Neat look
Two ways to do it, your call:
- A small hook, the look lives outside. AInotate gets an entry point (
ainotate.looks) so a package can add a look. Your look stays the only one built in, and we publish and maintain the neat one as a separate package. The core change is 142 lines plus tests, with no font and no neat code. The default renders pixel-identical. Branch ready: testy-cool:look-hook - Built in. About 770 lines plus a font file (Shantell Sans, SIL OFL), and every new mark type would need a neat version too.
We'd suggest 1. Either way, your current look stays the default. Happy to drop it if it's not something you want in AInotate.
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visul commentedon Oct 10, 2026
Thanks, the neat look is lovely, and option 1 is the right call: a small
ainotate.looksentry point in the core, with the neat look published and maintained as its own package.Please open the look-hook branch as a PR. What we will check:
Once it is in, we are happy to link the neat look package from the README.
docs(changelog): pluggable looks (#3)
visul commentedon Oct 10, 2026
Done in #4: your look-hook commit (rebased, authorship kept) plus a fallback so a look that fails to load renders with the default look and a warning. CI is green on macOS and Ubuntu. This issue closes when #4 is merged. Ping us when the neat look package is published and we will link it from the README.
docs(changelog): pluggable looks (#3)