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Play with fonts?

Randomizr Hello, web designers Habrahabra.

Your attention is invited to a thing in which you can frantically play with fonts (and not only) - Web Design Randomizr . She appeared by chance, thought quite differently, it turned out something completely third, in general, nothing remarkable.

An example of what it does is visible in the image on the right, if it has loaded.

A small digression: the author of this text, to the great joy of others, is not a designer. I am very interested in typography and usability, but at work I do things that are infinitely far from beautiful.
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So, when an inexperienced web designer (for example, I) needs to draw a website, he takes some random fonts, colors, background picture and looks what happened. Then he throws out, repeats a random sample, looks again. At some moment it turns out irrepressibly; this workpiece goes to work, being gradually dopilivae to the state when you can look at it without tears. Well, or almost without tears, sometimes crying is useful, by the way.

The first thing I wanted to do with this process was when I fully realized it - of course, to automate it. And it turned out that everything is not so simple: a living person with at least one eye makes a random choice not from all possible values ​​of a parameter, but from an empirically chosen range. For example, the text color is chosen as a contrasting background color; some colors are never used. This is amazing and beautiful, but how can such decision-making be turned into an algorithm?

There was a generally logical idea: to write a parser that crawls on the Internet, collects styles that other people have already written for us, and sorts them by scope. There are many styles, a kind of random combination with such a sample is no longer plagiarized, but quite a study.

The parser is not yet fully formed, but this did not prevent to make some kind of test implementation on a small sample of data, in order to see if the initial idea is so good. I present her to the public at large.

The work is by no means finished, and many parameters are set so far by carefully selected constants at random. The result of the script every time is random; you can save it to disk, or save the permalink, or not save.

Well, the most important question that torments me at the moment. Do you think this approach to the design of sites has the right to life?

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143665/


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