Tiny Little Life

I’m pleased to announce that the latest version of FontClustr, which is freely available on GitHub, now supports an interactive HTML tree for browsing its output.
This is a step toward an interactive font chooser that sorts by appearance.
When I go looking for a good typeface, I usually have a few styles in mind […]

My FontClustr project has received honorable mention in the 2011 Catalyst Award competition! As an outsider to the world of graphic design, I’m touched that they found my work so inspiring.
From the press release:
The judges were impressed by the approach taken by this self-confessed non-typographer to a practical problem: how to automate grouping […]

FontClustr can now be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/ifreecarve/FontClustr

My GNU software called FontClustr has been updated to run on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
Download and Installation instructions for FontClustr are now in this permanent location.
I’ve also corrected an omission of the 3 files that make the output webpages work properly. Sorry!
As before, if you use FontClustr to improve font selection in your own program, […]

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. […]