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Category Archives: Font Visualization
Lyrics as Tiles: Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy coded with Color and Texture
Song lyrics depend heavily on rhythm, syllables and rhyme (in some songs such as pop songs). Some poetry visualizations add white space between words and lines, which can then be filled with various visualization techniques, such as forming links between … Continue reading
Modley’s Pictographs and Graphs
Rudolf Modley was a key figure in the popularization of Isotype in the United States. I’ve previously written about Isotype (e.g. hypothesizing what happened to it, and thematic axes). I recently received Modley and Lowenstein’s book Pictographs and Graphs (1952, … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Isotype
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Using Font Attributes with D3.js
Most of the typographic visualization examples on this site are created in D3.js, using SVG. There are tons of examples of D3 on the web used to create bars, dots, etc; but not many online examples where font attributes are … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Text Visualization
Tagged d3, d3.js, d3js, SVG
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Color in Text Visualization
Highlighting text via bold or italic is less noticeable than color. There is an incredibly long history of the use of color in a continuum from medieval times to present. From a visualization perspective, color is scoped to the level of words, … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Text Visualization
Tagged chromatic_type, color_fonts
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Text Visualization and Code Editors
Long before I started investigating typographic attributes for data visualization, Aaron Marcus and Ron Baecker were doing the same thing for software code. Back in the mid 1980s there weren’t integrated development environments, no integrated debugging tools and so on. … Continue reading
Stem & Leaf Bigrams
Stem & leaf plots are quirky alphanumeric data visualizations. In typical usage they show distributions of numeric values. Here’s a simple dataset of heights of my family on the left, transformed into a stem and leaf plot on the right: … Continue reading
Lost Works of Jacques Bertin on Typography
Strangely, out of 450 pages+ in Bertin’s Sémiologie Graphique translated into English only 4 pages about typography were not translated. Continue reading
Posted in Alphanumeric Chart, Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Text Visualization
Tagged data visualization, datavis
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Patent Visualization and Litigation Ratios
Earlier this week, Scott Langevin and I were fortunate to speak at the Strata Big Data Conference in NYC. The topic was Text Analytics and New Visualization Techniques. It discussed some of the examples on this blog and my research; and additionally … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Graph Visualization
Tagged patents
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Variable Fonts vs. Parametric Fonts and Data Visualization
I’ve typically been using ready-made fonts to create font-based visualizations in this blog. However, sticking to ready-made fonts means that you get only one slope angle for italic, a few levels of weight, maybe a condensed version or maybe not. … Continue reading
The Origin of Thematic Maps — and the problem with base maps
Why is there such a big gap between thematic maps and label maps? Both types of maps show data about places. Thematic maps typically use lots of color to show data about places; whereas label maps use a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Choropleth, Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Thematic Map
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