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Comic Page & Lettering Planner

Plan comic panels, reading order and dialogue in an editable page.

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Try an example: Four panels and a small discovery · A right-to-left conversation

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How it works

Create a comic page from a grid and one dialogue line per panel. Choose reading direction and print resolution, add optional rough figures, and download an SVG, lettering CSV and editable Flipline Comic Desk project.

  • Comic pages are 400–2400 px wide, 400–4000 px high and at most 6 megapixels. A grid contains 1–12 panels and a page supports 36 balloons. Reading order follows spatial rows, left-to-right or right-to-left.
  • One input line creates one speech balloon in reading order. Wrapping estimates system sans-serif widths and reduces lettering to fit, down to 12 px. Overflow is rejected for tool exports; original text remains in the editable project. Review glyph layout before printing.
  • SVG dimensions use millimetres = pixels / DPI × 25.4. Lettering CSV follows reading order and guards formula-like leading characters. Optional figures are authored geometric staging, not generated illustrations.

Independent page-layout tool. No MediBang project import, CMYK conversion or exact font-metric guarantee.

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Plan comic panels and dialogue

Turn a grid and dialogue lines into a printable comic layout and an editable Flipline Comic Desk project.

What it is for

Comic Page & Lettering Planner prepares a page before you draw its final artwork. Enter a grid and dialogue lines, choose the reading direction and download a page with speech balloons. Optional rough figures help stage a conversation without pretending to be finished illustrations.

The result opens in Flipline Comic Desk, where you can split and move panels, import art, copy drawing-board snapshots, add captions and apply screentones. The implementation takes inspiration from MediBang's comic workflow. It does not read MediBang project files or require an account.

Worked example

Keep the defaults: two rows, two columns, a 1000 × 1400 pixel page at 150 DPI with a 40 px margin and a 20 px gutter. The tool answered "4 comic panels are ready in reading order." Each panel measures 450 × 650 px; the top row starts at x = 40 and x = 510, the bottom row at y = 710. The four dialogue lines become four speech balloons at 28 px, read in the order panel-1, panel-2, panel-3, panel-4. No balloon overflowed.

The print size is 1000 / 150 × 25.4 = 169.3 mm by 237.1 mm. The downloads were a 7,845-byte page SVG, a 12,673-byte editable comic project and a 323-byte lettering CSV with one row per balloon ("1, Panel 1, balloon-1, speech, What is that light?, 28"). Open the project in Comic Desk to replace a rough figure, move a balloon and export again.

The right-to-left example uses one row of two 450 × 1320 px panels. Its reading order is panel-2, panel-1: "Did you see it?" sits in the right-hand panel and the CSV lists it first. Reading direction changes the sequence only; it does not translate or reverse the text.

How to read the result

The report gives panel and balloon counts, page pixel count, physical size and reading-order IDs. Physical millimetres equal pixels divided by DPI and multiplied by 25.4. DPI changes print scale without adding image detail.

The SVG keeps vector frames, figures and lettering. The project contains all editable layout data. Lettering CSV lists the full dialogue in reading order with panel names, balloon IDs, style and font size. Formula-like leading spreadsheet characters are guarded.

Letter wrapping estimates system sans-serif widths. The planner reduces lettering size to fit, down to twelve pixels. If dialogue still cannot fit, the calculation rejects that export and asks you to shorten the lines or enlarge the panels.

Tips and common mistakes

Use no more dialogue lines than panels. An empty line can reserve a panel without spoken text. Review the layout before printing: changing fonts or viewing software can change glyph widths. Fonts are not embedded, and vertical Japanese typesetting is not supported.

A page supports one to twelve panels and thirty-six balloons in the editor. Width is 400–2400 pixels, height 400–4000, with a six-megapixel total ceiling. Very dense grids may leave panels below the sixty-pixel minimum and are rejected.

Keep an editable project file as well as the exported image. A PNG is flattened; later painting changes should come from the original drawing project, copied into the panel again.

FAQ

Is the artwork generated automatically?

Only simple authored staging figures are optional. The tool does not create finished comic illustrations. Add your own artwork in Comic Desk or disable the rough figures for a clean layout.

Can I use it for manga reading order?

Yes. Choose right-to-left to order panels from the right within each spatial row. Balloon text itself remains as written; check dialogue placement and language-specific lettering yourself.

Is the planner available through API and MCP?

Yes. The MCP name is flipline_comic_page. Direct fields include name, dialogue, rows, columns, width, height, dpi, reading and figures. The browser and server share the layout engine.

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For scripts and AI agents

  • JSON API: POST https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate (same calculation as this page)
  • Interface description: OpenAPI 3.1 · AI guide: llms.txt
  • MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/mcp · tool name flipline_comic_page
Example request
curl -s -X POST https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'
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