One word a day. Ten strokes each.
You are never given enough to finish anything. Ten strokes will not make a drawing. They will make a gesture, a fragment, a line that stops early and waits for someone else to answer it.
That is the whole idea.
Somewhere else, someone opens the same word and finds the space you left behind. They spend their ten. By the end of the day the page is crowded with hands that never met, and the word has become something none of them could have drawn alone.
Then it closes. The word changes. Nothing is ever added to that day again.
What remains in the Log is not a picture by an artist. It is the record of a day when strangers looked at the same word and reached, separately, for the same empty space.
Ten strokes is almost nothing.
Together it has always been enough.
Write about a day you would like removed, a word you would like to see, or anything the site gets wrong. Everything is read.
Ten Strokes Log publishes one word each day and one shared canvas. Anyone may add up to ten strokes to it. At 00:00 UTC the canvas closes permanently and is archived in the Log. By drawing, you accept these terms.
You remain the author of the strokes you draw. You confirm they are your own work and that they infringe no one else's rights.
A day's canvas is made by many hands and cannot be separated back into individual works. So that the archive can exist and be shown, you grant Ten Strokes Log a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to store, reproduce, display, distribute and adapt your strokes as part of the day they belong to — online, in print, in exhibitions, and in physical editions such as posters, whether or not those are sold. Where a day is reproduced it is credited to the day and its hands collectively, never to an individual.
No contributor gains ownership of, or an exclusive claim to, a completed day. You may not present a day's canvas as your own work, and you may not sell reproductions of it.
You may not submit anything unlawful; anything that harasses, threatens or degrades a person or group; sexual content involving minors; personal information about yourself or anyone else, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and account handles; advertising; or marks made to deface the canvas rather than contribute to it. You may not draw by automated means, and you may not attempt to exceed ten strokes a day by any method.
We may hide, remove or restore any stroke, and may close or withhold an entire day, at our discretion and without notice. We are under no obligation to monitor, and removing one thing does not oblige us to remove another.
Strokes are submitted anonymously and become part of an indivisible whole, so we usually cannot identify or withdraw one person's contribution after the fact. If a day contains material that infringes your rights or depicts you unlawfully, write to us and we will consider removing the affected area or the day in full.
There are no accounts. A random identifier is stored in your browser so that the ten-stroke limit can be counted. It is not linked to your identity, and we collect no names, email addresses or location. Clearing your browser data removes it.
The site is not directed at children under 13. If you are under the age of majority where you live, use it with the consent of a parent or guardian.
The site is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. Days may be lost to technical failure. We may change or discontinue any part of the site, including the archive, at any time.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ten Strokes Log is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the site.
These terms may change. The date above shows when they last did. Continuing to draw after a change means you accept it.