Why Wocument exists

To make every long read on the web look as if it was designed for the screen it is on.

It started on a campus.

Wocument started with a wish: college students wanted to document what happens at their institution the way a well-made publication would, with features, interviews, photo essays and a front page, and have people read it.

They had three choices, all poor. A blog made every story look the same. A PDF from a design tool looked right and was impossible to read on a phone. A website built by hand needed a designer and a developer for every issue, and the issue died when they graduated.

A story works only when it is read. Layout is how it gets read.

So we built a fourth: write the story once, and have it set with the care of print on any screen. The same three poor choices face marketers, storytellers, newsrooms and anyone who publishes long-form on the web, so Wocument is for them too.

Wocument does one thing: it sets your story, with care in every line. Simple to write. Considered to the last line.

What we believe.

Layout is part of the story.: Where a picture sits and how a column ends change how far people read.
The screen is its own medium.: A screen has a width, a height and a scroll, and a page should be built for all three.
Good design should be the default.: Most people never adjust a setting, so the defaults are the design.
Stories should be immersive.: If something happened, the reader should be able to see and hear it while they read.
Fewer, better options.: One considered answer beats a panel of fifty settings.
Readable by everyone.: Real text in reading order, for people, screen readers, search engines and assistants.

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A document made for the web: written like a document, set like print.

Sometimes it is the simple things that make people happy.

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