Maintainer here. dang suggested I add a comment to the thread to help start possible conversations about the project. So I'll answer 3 self-asked questions.

"Why did you start the project?"

Short answer: I'd spent 3 years trying to get my first job in tech (London). A recruiter took pity on me in 2013 and suggested I build up a portfolio of projects on GitHub to showcase my abilities. I started a project which included an animation on canvas, and took the decision to code the animation using the canvas API rather than an existing library. I got a bit obsessive about the canvas element over the next few years. 7 years later, I'm finally beginning to feel happy and confident in the work.

"What problems does the project solve?"

My view is that there's three big issues with the <canvas> element: accessibility; responsiveness; fun.

Accessibility - because the current canvas element completely fails users who access websites with non-visual browsers and devices. All information contained in the graphic output is a black box to them. This has to change.

Responsiveness - because the current canvas element doesn't know how to play nicely with CSS responsive design patterns.

Fun - because trying to do anything reasonably complex with the Canvas API is not fun.

"What are your hopes for the project?"

I'm not looking for the library to take the frontend world by storm (though it is a nice fantasy).

What would really make me happy would be if maintainers of other canvas libraries look at what I've tried to do with Scrawl-canvas around the areas of accessibility and responsiveness, and add that sort of functionality to their projects - hopefully in even better, more efficient ways.

Oh - and finding some collaborators to work on the project would also be good, because I've spent too long working on it by myself and it could really do with some fresh eyes and opinions.