Data Stories: Looking at Font Features and Use
Take a few minutes for a different kind of text analysis: using machine learning, psychology, and ink to look at fonts.
- By Upside Staff
- April 18, 2018
![Font Map](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/04/041818VizFontmap.jpg)
Choosing a font is an important part of graphic design. A team at design firm IDEO put together an experiment where they used machine learning to group fonts together by common elements. Read more about the project on Medium.
![Venngage](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/04/041818VizVenngage.jpg)
Infographic company Venngage used data from Netflix to analyze the psychology of fonts, presenting their findings in a series of infographics and charts.
![Flowing Data](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2018/04/041818VizInk.jpg)
The original post has been taken down, but Flowing Data archived this account of a somewhat tongue-in-cheek experiment that used actual pens to test how much ink various fonts use.