toonstrip

Changelog

All notable changes to toonstrip, newest first. Versions are repository versions; the npm packages are versioned independently, so each entry lists the package versions it shipped. Written for users; the engineering history behind each entry is in WORKLOG.md.

The format follows Keep a Changelog.

0.8.9 — 2026-09-02

Packages: @toonstrip/core 0.1.7, @toonstrip/element 0.1.8, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.11, @toonstrip/cli 0.2.1 (all published)

Fixed

  • Korean balloon text rendered in a brush script on Windows (Gungseo) and in arbitrary fallbacks elsewhere. The comic font stack now names Noto Sans KR, then the platform Korean sans faces, ahead of the generic; Latin text is unchanged.
  • The element now waits for document.fonts before first paint and repaints when a face finishes loading late, so a page-declared webfont reaches the canvas.

Added

  • toonstrip render --font <file> registers a font file (for example Noto Sans KR) before drawing. COMIC_FONT_FAMILY and TITLE_FONT exported from @toonstrip/core.
  • The site declares Noto Sans KR (Korean subset, fetched only when drawn) and the kitchen sink has a Korean strip check.

0.8.8 — 2026-09-02

Packages: @toonstrip/cli 0.2.0 (published)

Added

  • The site is live at toonstrip.danielkimdev.com: intro, docs, playground, and this changelog. Every @toonstrip/* README links to it.

0.8.7 — 2026-09-02

Packages: @toonstrip/cli 0.2.0 (published 2026-09-02 with 0.8.8)

Added

  • toonstrip render <doc.json> --out strip.png: render a Comic Strip Document to one PNG in Node, with the element’s column policy and figure selection. --width, --scale, --pack <dir> (repeatable), --transparent, --background. Also exported as renderDocument().

Changed

  • @toonstrip/cli now depends on @toonstrip/core, @toonstrip/schema, and @napi-rs/canvas.

0.8.6 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • Per-route JavaScript budgets enforced in CI, an Open Graph image rendered from the hero strip, and the site’s end-to-end tests running in CI.

0.8.5 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • Public changelog at /changelog with an Atom feed, generated from this file.

0.8.4 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • The playground: edit a strip as a form, as JSON, or by watching the result. Emotion wheel, camera presets, character and backdrop pickers, undo/redo, presets, share by URL, PNG export, and copy-out Astro and HTML snippets.

0.8.3 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • Documentation site: twelve pages from install to schema reference, every example shown as code beside the strip it renders, plus /llms.txt for agents.

0.8.2 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • The introduction page for toonstrip.danielkimdev.com: live hero strip with a width control, 30-second install, six use-case strips, the character roster.

0.8.1 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • Site component library and the CodeAndStrip block used throughout the docs.

0.8.0 — 2026-09-02

Packages: no npm release (site only)

Added

  • site/: the source of toonstrip.danielkimdev.com, an Astro site that dogfoods @toonstrip/astro. Deployed by Cloudflare Pages from this repository.

Fixed

  • CI now builds the workspace before running tests. Every run since 0.4.0 had failed on a clean runner because the packages resolve each other through built dist/ entry points.

0.7.11 — 2026-09-02

Packages: @toonstrip/core 0.1.6, @toonstrip/element 0.1.7, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.10

Fixed

  • Balloon text, padding, margins, and tail geometry now scale with the panel’s actual size instead of being fixed pixel values computed for a 400 px panel. Narrow embeds (blog columns, phones) no longer read as cramped, and two-speaker panels fit their balloons side by side from 400 px down to 260 px.

0.7.10 — 2026-09-02

Packages: shipped with 0.7.11

Fixed

  • Two-speaker panels far too often fell back to vertically stacked balloons. The layout now reserves a horizontal corridor per speaker before sizing any balloon, so the first balloon can no longer take the room the second one needs.

0.7.9 — 2026-09-02

Packages: shipped with 0.7.11

Fixed

  • A stacked speech balloon could sit over the other character’s head. Fallback layout now keeps a balloon within its own speaker’s side of the panel.

0.7.8 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/core 0.1.5, @toonstrip/element 0.1.6, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.9

Fixed

  • Stacked balloons in multi-balloon panels were capped at two-thirds of the panel width for no layout reason; they now use the full width, so text wraps to fewer lines at real embed sizes.

0.7.7 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/core 0.1.4, @toonstrip/element 0.1.5, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.8

Fixed

  • Panel seeding used a plain space to join speaker and text, which could make two different panels lay out identically. Restored the collision-proof delimiter.

0.7.6 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/core 0.1.3, @toonstrip/element 0.1.4, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.7

Fixed

  • A speaker’s first balloon was often needlessly narrow, wrapping to extra lines and pushing its neighbour’s balloon into a head. Balloons now prefer the available width.

0.7.5 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/element 0.1.3, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.6

Fixed

  • @toonstrip/element and @toonstrip/astro were still pinned to the schema version from before 0.7.4’s fix. Installing @toonstrip/astro alone now gets the CSP-safe validator.

0.7.4 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/schema 0.1.3, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.5

Fixed

  • Strips were blank on sites with a strict Content Security Policy because the validator compiled the JSON Schema at runtime with new Function. The validator is now precompiled at build time; no unsafe-eval needed.

Changed

  • @toonstrip/astro no longer injects ajv into Vite’s optimizeDeps.

0.7.3 — 2026-09-01

Packages: @toonstrip/schema 0.1.2, @toonstrip/astro 0.1.4

Fixed

  • Published the 0.7.2 fixes.

0.7.2 — 2026-09-01

Packages: shipped in 0.7.3

Fixed

  • <ComicStrip client:visible /> never hydrated: the server-rendered placeholder had zero height, so the browser never reported it as visible. The placeholder now reserves space.
  • The bundled validator failed to import ajv under Vite.

0.7.1 — 2026-09-01

Packages: all seven @toonstrip/* packages at 0.1.0

Added

  • First npm release: @toonstrip/schema, @toonstrip/core, @toonstrip/element, @toonstrip/astro, @toonstrip/pack-comic-chat, @toonstrip/pack-example, @toonstrip/cli.

0.7.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • Documentation: the document format, the asset pack contract with a worked walkthrough for adding a character, and embedding in Astro. Root README and contributing guide.
  • @toonstrip/pack-example: a second, wholly original one-character pack proving the pack contract is not tied to the default art.

0.6.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • @toonstrip/astro: the toonstrip() integration (copies packs into public/) and the <ComicStrip> component, with client:visible deferring all JavaScript and fetches until the strip scrolls into view.
  • examples/astro-blog: a minimal Astro site embedding a strip in a post.

0.5.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • @toonstrip/element: the <comic-strip> custom element. One canvas per panel, responsive column layout, device-pixel-ratio-aware, off-screen panels released, Shadow DOM isolation, and a generated aria-label per panel.

0.4.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • @toonstrip/pack-comic-chat: the default asset pack. Fifteen characters and three backdrops from the original Microsoft Comic Chat, redistributed under MIT with attribution.
  • @toonstrip/cli: toonstrip pack validate <dir>.

0.3.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • @toonstrip/core: the rendering engine. Figures composited from face and torso sprites, emotion-wheel nearest-neighbour pose selection, six camera presets, speech, thought, and caption balloons with placement, and the responsive column policy. Framework-agnostic; runs in the browser and in Node.

0.2.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • @toonstrip/schema: the ComicStripDocument v1 types, JSON Schema, and validator.
  • pnpm workspace, MIT licence, CI.

0.1.0 — 2026-09-01

Packages: unreleased

Added

  • Repository created from the grues-in-comic comic renderer, with the game, chat, and AI-inference halves left behind.