Six characters. All previously free. All still free, technically. We just made it official. Pick one below, or click through — they cycle themselves if you're not in a hurry.
We live in a time when you buy licenses for software, rent access to your own files, and subscribe to things you used to own. Everything in this store — a punctuation mark, a spelling rule, a paragraph, a second of your own life — is a small refusal: a purchase with more honesty than most of what we call digital ownership.
You already have all of it. You've had it since before you could read, before you could tell time, before you'd ever heard of Cicero. Buying it doesn't give you anything you didn't already have. That's the point. The receipt is real. The ownership is yours to believe in.
"Take it. It's yours!" — Brad Pitt
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the em dash.
"Take it, it's yours!" — Brad Pitt
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the en dash.
"It's shorter, but it's not nothing." — a typesetter, probably
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the serial comma.
"I'd like to thank my parents, Oprah Winfrey, and God." — every argument for this comma, ever
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the ellipsis.
"So anyway..." — everyone, mid-thought, forever
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the space character.
"Nothing to see here." — this entire product page
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned dollar. We want you to reclaim the non-breaking space, enterprise edition.
"Please raise a ticket." — our support team, to itself
| Rule Category | Example | Approx. Word Count |
|---|---|---|
| Follows the rule (I before E) | Believe, Fierce | ~900 words |
| Follows the exception (EI after C) | Receive, Ceiling | ~160 words |
| Breaks the rule (EI with no C) | Caffeine, Weight | ~1,800+ words |
| Breaks the exception (IE after C) | Science, Glacier | ~300 words |
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned $0.34. We want you to reclaim this rule, wrong as it is.
"I before E, except after C, and also weird, and also seize, and also—" — every English teacher, eventually trailing off
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned money. We want you to reclaim this particular moment, whatever it cost you.
There's a very famous song about seizing a moment before it slips away. We are contractually and spiritually unable to quote it here. You know the one.
Bless your heart, but we don't want your information or hard-earned $3.14. We want you to reclaim the paragraph every designer has quietly pasted a thousand times.
It doesn't mean anything. That was always the point.
This is a real, physical object that will be manufactured, packaged, and shipped to a real address. Please provide accurate shipping information.
(We are still not going to ask for your actual card number. This is a demo. The tape, however, is conceptually very real.)
This is a real, physical object that will be manufactured, packaged, and shipped to a real address. Please provide accurate shipping information.
(We are still not going to ask for your actual card number. This is a demo. The dramatic tension, however, is conceptually very real.)
This is a real, physical object that will be manufactured, packaged, and shipped to a real address. Please provide accurate shipping information.
(We are still not going to ask for your actual card number. This is a demo. The ambition, however, is conceptually very real.)
You don't owe us anything. You already made the typo. We just made it official.
"The only truly owned thing is the mistake you've already made." — emdash.click, just now
This embed is a self-contained HTML snippet. No external dependencies, no tracking, no scripts. Paste it into your footer. It will declare, in the most official non-official language possible, that any typographical errors on the page are owned assets — not accidents. The legalese is non-legally-binding. We have said this twice now.
One Kernel is free with any Typo. The Typo is also free. This is two free things in a row, which is either very good or very suspicious depending on your experience with software pricing.
Go get The Typo. Come back. One Kernel will be here, quietly being four things at once.