Twitter Spectrum

Posted on February 17th, 2010 in General by admin

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Here’s a really interesting visualisation from Jeff Clark. It uses Summize which provides excellent search capability for Twitter data and its built with Processing.

I typed in typography and web just to see what it would look like. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on how highly they are associated with the two topics. Chris Harrison’s visualisations using a similar concept provided the inspiration for this piece.

Webfonts info at The Font Feed

Posted on February 11th, 2010 in General by admin

FontCast #5 — Webfonts Week: Erik Spiekermann from FontShop on Vimeo.

The Font Feed is turning out to be a really good resource. Here’s a bunch of video interviews with key individuals driving the web font agenda, including: Erik Speikerman, Christian Swartz, David Berlow, Simon Daniels and David Mason.

Also, some other good links to posts about web fonts:

FontFont gives away Nuvo free web font with Firefox 3.6;
Nuvo_font

FontFonts on the Web, Starting Today, by Steven Coales;

and a nice example of web typography using FontFont fonts.