I just finished this little web app. It uses the same word-association dataset I’ve been obsessed with for the past year. Enter words, and it will produce an image showing the connections between your input and other connected words.
Here is some sample input from actual users:
In an effort to get at the essence of font-design, I averaged all the fonts on my computer and got this:
All the fonts on my computer [image].
I did it in Flash. Originally I was going to use Processing, but its font handling is clunky. (Flash, I later discovered, has its own rendering issues. Next time I’ll try Open Frameworks). Here are two embedded apps that average web-safe fonts:
Sans-serif fonts [flash] Serif fonts [flash]
And here’s the source code: