Tiny Little Life

My GNU software called FontClustr has been updated to run on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
I’ve also corrected an omission of the 3 files that make the output webpages work properly. Sorry!
You need these files:

fontclustr.py
tree.py
style.css
tabber.css
tabber.js

You’ll need to apt-get these Ubuntu packages (and possibly others):python-pythonmagick
python-pygame
python-gd
python-opencv
fonttools
Run it by making fontclustr.py executable and executing it, or running this from […]

The software I wrote in January called FontClustr is now available under the GPL.
If you use my methodology to improve font selection in your own program, I would appreciate the hell out of it if you credited me in some way.
For the impatient, you’ll need the following:

fontclustr.py
tree.py

Run it by making fontclustr.py executable and […]

I’ve expanded FontClustr to be an interactive Javascript application.
Bear in mind, this HTML was generated by running the clustering algorithm on my specific computer — your installed fonts will be different if you check this out on a non-Ubuntu machine. In fact, if you don’t have ALL of Ubuntu’s font packages installed, […]

My thanks to John Maeda for getting the word out on twitter! Follow me here.

My font clustering project (originally called Fontr) is now called FontClustr. If you found this page via a search engine, the page you want is probably one of the ones in the FontClustr category.

Something has always bothered me about fonts: I have to pick one alphabetically.
I have over 1200 fonts on my computer. Why am I forced to pick the perfect one by going through an alphabetical list? Not even the major font families (serif, sans-serif, condensed, cursive, fantasy, etc) are grouped together.
No longer. […]