CHANGELOG

Every version of QuartzLab '99

From the first canvas prototype to the current release — what was added, changed and fixed along the way.

  1. v1.4

    Film border

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • 35mm film sprocket border mode — black film bands with rectangular perforations wrap the photo without cropping or distorting it.
    • Bands follow the photo automatically: top and bottom for landscape and square frames, left and right for portrait.
    • Vintage yellow edge printing with film stock code, DX-style ticks and frame numbers that run sequentially across a batch or randomise per photo.
    • The full composite — photo, border, perforations and edge text — bakes into the exported JPEG.
  2. v1.3

    Fonts & batch

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Selective batch export — tick or untick photos and export only the selection; successfully exported photos are removed from the queue.
    • QuartzLab '99 7-segment LED font style with authentic hardware-style colons and widened segment gaps.
    • QuartzLab '99 Glow font style, a reactivated dot-matrix face in the QuartzLab '99 series.
    • Neon Emulsion '95 and Amber Daylight '93 colour presets with matching glow colours.
    • Plus/minus step buttons on every numeric slider for easier mobile adjustment.

    Changed

    • Default stamp size is now 2.0 for QuartzLab '99 7-segment LED and 3.4 for every other QuartzLab '99 series font.
    • QuartzLab '99 7-segment LED tracking widened to 0.09 em so the LED bars stay cleanly separated.

    Fixed

    • Apostrophe in QuartzLab '99 series fonts now sits higher so its top lines up with the digits beside it.
  3. v1.2

    Share & discover

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Buy Me a Coffee support link in the header.
    • Social and contact links (Instagram, X, TikTok, Email) alongside the coffee button.
    • JSON-LD SoftwareApplication schema and refreshed SEO metadata for the homepage.
    • Privacy note in the drop area confirming photos are processed locally in the browser.

    Changed

    • Homepage title, H1 and About text rewritten around retro photo timestamp and camera date stamp keywords.
  4. v1.1

    Docs

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Changelog page with a full version timeline.
    • User Guide covering every setting and how it changes the exported image.
    • Header navigation between the app, guide and changelog.
  5. v1.0

    Placement & output

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Resolution-independent scaling — stamp size is measured against the image long edge.
    • Stamp position mode: standard corner anchoring or offset view with margin sliders.
    • Colon style toggle: standard glyph or a 2x2 dot-matrix block colon.
    • Colon spacing slider for time formats (default 0.2).
    • Three-way stamp orientation: Digital level, Rotate 90°, Camera back.
    • Metadata option to write each photo's date/time into the exported JPEG EXIF.
    • Timestamped ZIP filenames: QuartzLab99_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.zip.

    Changed

    • Camera back now prints bottom-to-top down the right edge on every photo, not just portraits.
    • The Pronto 1200 preset no longer forces rotation.

    Fixed

    • Preview crash when selecting the Pronto 1200 preset — bloom now reuses a scratch layer and caps blur radii.
    • Block colon redrawn with round dots matching the font's own dot weight.
  6. v0.9

    Flare

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • QuartzLab '99 : Flare font style with multi-layer bloom (white core, amber, orange, diffuse halo).
    • Flare bloom intensity slider (0–2).
    • Auto bloom — per-photo brightness measurement drives the bloom strength automatically.
  7. v0.8

    Typography fixes

    Aug 2026

    Fixed

    • Apostrophe redrawn to lean right, towards the year.
    • Negative kerning so the year hugs the apostrophe.
    • Colon glyph tightened to a 230-unit slot with even side bearings, centred on the digit midline.
  8. v0.7

    Colour system

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Data-driven colour presets (Pronto Amber, Digital Gold) that are trivial to extend.
    • Hex input field with live validation, synced to the colour picker.
    • Hue and saturation sliders.
  9. v0.6

    Pronto 1200

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Pronto 1200 preset derived from 56 reference scans (colour, size, margins, blend).
    • Pronto Databack formats in 2-digit and 4-digit year variants.
    • Fixed-width character grid so single-digit days and months never shift the layout.
    • Wider day–month gap to match the original data-back spacing.
  10. v0.5

    Formats

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Date formats: DD MM 'YY, 'YY MM DD, MM DD 'YY, DD MON YYYY, MON DD 'YY, Euro dots.
    • Time formats: DD HH:MM, date + time, date + time with seconds, time-first, ISO compact.
    • Dead-battery mode (-- -- --) and a no-stamp option.
  11. v0.4

    Fonts & glow

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • QuartzLab '99 font family introduced as the core typeface for the stamp.
    • Glow slider and blend modes (lighten, screen, source-over, color-dodge).
  12. v0.3

    Batch

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Multi-photo queue with active-photo selection and per-item removal.
    • One-click ZIP export of the whole batch.
  13. v0.2

    EXIF & RAW

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • EXIF date parsing with a file-modified-date fallback, labelled per photo.
    • Editable date/time per photo.
    • RAW preview extraction for ARW, CR2, CR3, NEF, NRW, RAF, RW2, ORF, DNG, PEF and SRW.
  14. v0.1

    Conception

    Aug 2026

    Added

    • Canvas rendering pipeline with drag-and-drop JPEG loading.
    • A single LED date stamp burned into the lower-right corner.
    • Basic size and opacity controls with a live preview.