This is a continution of a pen of mine Drop-Caps where I explored multiple ways to do drop-caps. I also expanded one of those out into its own Pen, because I loved how it looked: tessellated text . This led to a fork by Ana Tudor to demonstrate how that can be accomplised by using SVG . Lets call this a foray into text manipulation using SVG. I am still learning using SVG for that, so it is not as elegant.