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Fovea

A speed reader of my own: one word at a time, anchored where your eye already is. ePubs, PDFs and docx, fully offline.

Client
Own product
Services
Product design · Development · Brand
Year
2026
Stack
React, TypeScript, PWA
The Fovea reader mid-sentence: the word "Jane" with its anchor letter in red
The display panel: theme presets, warmth, dim and contrast
The library with Pride and Prejudice added from Standard Ebooks

01The brief

Fovea is a product of my own: a speed reader built on RSVP, where one word at a time appears in a fixed spot and a red anchor letter sits where your eye already is, so your eyes stop travelling across the page and simply read. The brief I set myself was a reader good enough to replace the Kindle app at night. Bring your own ePubs, PDFs and Word documents, keep everything on the device with no account and no server, and make the comfort controls real rather than a single dark-mode switch.

02The approach

The reading engine is pure TypeScript with its own scheduler, pausing on punctuation and slowing on long words, and it is unit-tested end to end. Parsers run in a web worker, so a 120,000-word novel opens without a stutter, and the library lives in IndexedDB, so the whole app works offline and installs from the browser in two taps. Sixteen themes are grouped by the light you read in, from paper white to zero-blue night modes, with warmth, dim and contrast sliders and twelve typefaces. The landing page opens with a live calibration: the reader runs on the headline itself, so you feel the idea before you read a word about it.

03Results

5

Input formats: ePub, PDF, docx, txt and paste

16

Reading themes, grouped by the light you read in

100%

Offline. Books and progress never leave the phone

04Design language

  • True black

    #000000

    OLED reading surface and the marketing site

  • Slate

    #1a1c20

    Default reading theme

  • Anchor red

    #ff3b30

    The one letter your eye rests on

  • Mist

    #cfd2d6

    Body text on dark themes

  • Paper

    #f4ecd8

    Daylight reading theme

  • Aa

    Literata

    Serif

    The reading face

    A screen serif drawn for long reading, with the open counters and even rhythm that keep a single word legible at 500 words a minute. One of twelve faces the reader can switch to.

  • Aa

    Inter

    Sans-serif

    Interface

    Quiet and precise for controls, library metadata and the marketing site, so nothing competes with the word on screen.

  • Aa

    IBM Plex Mono

    Monospace

    Labels and readouts

    Tracked-out mono for section labels, the words-per-minute readout and the calibration intro, giving the product its instrument-like feel.

05Gallery

3 images
  • The landing page hero: the reader running on the headline, with a live words-per-minute readout
  • How it works: the anchor letter, the maths of reading speed and the page view
  • Light for every hour: the theme switcher on the landing page

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