01 — Identity

Every name has a shape.

Your name

Your name moves:

Rising Descending Still

How it sounds

Sound key

ARPAbet symbols. A digit after a vowel marks stress: 1 is the main stress, 0 is none. Example: M IY1 K AH0.

Lab parameters

Changing these makes a different canonical version (the slug gains an -x suffix). The defaults are the reference settings.

Structure and measurements the geometric description, for those who want the detail

In The Shape of You

Names you add become part of the public collection.

An invitation to contemplate

Between Sound & Form

TOTEM transforms the letters and sounds of a name into a personal icon—a visual meditation on sound, shape, and meaning. Wander through the collection, or add your name.

The collection

Technical checks

Alphabet

Each letter is a real letter, kept whole. Left: the letter as typeset. Right: how it sits in a totem: turned a quarter turn so its baseline lies on the axis, then mirrored. Where the two copies meet they share one exact edge, so they fuse with no seam.