Most digital readers flatten the page. The Mirror is built to preserve it.
The Mirror is a digital reader application and design framework for displaying watercolour artwork and handwritten lettering without destroying the original page composition.
The problem
Typical readers reflow content: text is re-wrapped, images are detached from their layout, and anything that depends on where it sits on the page loses its meaning. For hand-made work — watercolour, lettering, mixed media — that flattening throws away the thing that mattered.
The design principles
- Composition is the unit. The page, not the paragraph, is what gets rendered and preserved.
- Respect the medium. Watercolour and handwriting are displayed as they are, not transcribed into type.
- Reading is an experience. The reader should meet the work directly, at full fidelity.
Why it matters for builders
When you build a viewer for any composed artefact — a zine, a score, an illustrated manuscript — the format is part of the payload. Preserving layout fidelity is not polish; it is the core requirement. The Mirror treats it that way from the first design decision.
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