Hairy type

Chris Davenport used the free "digital sketchbook" NodeBox to make the hairy text above. NodeBox is an easy way to create 2D graphics with Python. Davenport posted the code, titled Hair Peace, for others to play with too. From Creative Review:

"Nodebox is really accessible and very easy to pick up and fiddle with, it's aimed mainly at designers like myself who don't have vast programming experience," (Davenport) continues. "I managed to do it in a day after never using Python before. It's all well documented on the Nodebox site and there's a community that helps with problems...

Hairy Type (Creative Review)
Hair Peace (CPD-Work)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, September 11, 2009 9:46 AM]

nodebox leopard only, cool hair. who remembers hair peace?

[#2 posted by kpkpkp, September 11, 2009 11:00 AM]

Ginge?

[#3 posted by stevecopley, September 11, 2009 11:19 AM]

Ginge, as in Ginger, as in red-haired...

"A pejorative term for a person with pale skin, red hair, and freckles"

[#4 posted by Takuan, September 11, 2009 11:50 AM]

at last, a type face suitable for introspection! (please, I call it making literature with someone I love)

[#5 posted by JJR1971, September 11, 2009 12:14 PM]

Aw, you have to download it? Wish it was web-based so you could just play with it online, like the TYPO generator...

[#6 posted by Anonymous, September 12, 2009 2:56 PM]

And now, the moment comes when the shoe is on the other foot. To my dismay, Windows users can't use this, and I didn't see any information about a Windows GTK/Python port.

[#7 posted by soupisgoodfood, September 12, 2009 11:54 PM]

How about actually linking to NodeBox?