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)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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at last, a type face suitable for introspection! (please, I call it making literature with someone I love)
JJR1971

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

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

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.
kpkpkp

Ginge?
stevecopley

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

“A pejorative term for a person with pale skin, red hair, and freckles”
soupisgoodfood

How about actually linking to NodeBox?