I've always loved flipbooks, the little stick figure running and jumping around the corner of a page. I was curious if I could hi-jack a font file with stick figure glyphs. So I prompted Flipbook Foundry into existence.

Each animated frame of the a stick figure's motion is just a glyph in the font. You can drop {walk} into a paragraph and a stick figure walks right through it, at text size, and the words move aside.

The text reflow runs on Cheng Lou's awesome pretext library, which is fast enough to animate everything performantly.

There's an API for it (framer-motion style, for Svelte / React / plain JS), and the fonts are regular .otf files. Made a little demo page too - check it out and enjoy the swarm!