The component as it is
The settings panel does not appear: it is built by the script, and without it its sliders would command nothing.
When the subject is text
ASCII—II
The text is shown in its real face, at its real size: that is the one the engine reads back to draw the mask. The fallback and the rendering therefore cannot drift apart.
What the fallback does not imitate
- The grid of glyphs: it takes a canvas to draw it.
- The trail under the pointer, which only exists in movement.
- The thirty styles, which only change how a character is picked and how it is moved.
What is left is the subject itself, in the right place and at the right size — that is, the information. The rest is texture.