FontClustr

FontClustr was conceived in January 2010 by Ian Katz. [email protected] / http://tinylittlelife.org

It uses computer vision algorithms to sort fonts by appearance.

FontClustr is free software licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

Installation

FontClustr is written in Python 2 and JavaScript. It requires the following libraries:

Python

• fonttools
• opencv
• Python Imaging Library (or Pillow)
• numpy

JavaScript

Running npm install will fetch the following dependencies:

• d3
• markov-cluster
• minimist

Linux Support

Tested in Ubuntu 10.10, requiring the following packages: python-pygame python-opencv python-numpy python-imaging fonttools

Probably other packages, your feedback is appreciated.

OSX Support

You need to install opencv; I used the instructions here: https://jjyap.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/installing-opencv-2-4-9-on-mac-osx-with-python-support/

You need to pip install: PIL numpy fonttools

Usage

New Way

• Run python fontclustr_json.py. This will generate a cache and a distance matrix, and save them for future use.
• Run node index.js report/distance_information_AaBbCcGgHhKkOoPpTtXx.json report/allClusters.json. This will calculate the clusters using a hacked approach to the Markov Clustering algorithm
• Run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999
• Open http://localhost:9999/report/ in a web browser

Old Way

Run FontClustr as "python fontclustr.py" or make fontclustr.py executable and run it directly.

There is experimental support for a GUI version of FontClustr called gfontclustr.py that caches results.

Right now, it sucks. Eventually it will be interactive. "python gfontclustr.py"