Lyric Sheet Studio

A no-build, single-HTML-file tool for turning plain-text song lyrics into a printable or savable lyric sheet — built for singing from an iPad or a printed page without fiddling with a word processor for every song.

Background

I wanted a fast way to format lyrics for a physical or on-screen sheet: pick a device size, split into one or two columns, mark which lines are chorus, and get an image sized to fill the screen — without wrestling margins and font sizes by hand every time the lyrics are longer or shorter than the last song.

Technical highlights

• Auto-fit typography — a binary search picks the largest font size (capped at 16px) that still lets the lyrics fit the chosen device’s dimensions without overflowing, re-run on every edit.
• Content-aware image export — html2canvas renders the sheet, but the exported image is cropped to the actual text height rather than the full device canvas, so there’s no dead space below a short song.
• Shrink-wrapped single-column centering — in one-column mode the text block sizes itself to its own longest line and centers as a unit, keeping each line left-aligned rather than individually centering ragged text.
• Lightweight markup — blank lines start a new verse/chorus block, a leading * marks a chorus line for italic/color styling, and **double asterisks** bold a word or name (handy for marking who sings which part).
• Runs entirely client-side — nothing typed leaves the browser; the draft persists to localStorage between visits.