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http://www.trapdoor.be/home/index.php?Design%20Automation%20-%20Textension
"Tx, or Textension, is a text paragraph setter extended with a tension gravity point. Words and characters in the paragraph have a tendency to be attracted to or emitted from the tension point. The location of this point you set yourself, along with the spacing, nudging, nudging growth, character shiver, ... I was originally looking for a way to map emotions to fonts, but this proves to have some problems, including finding a decent font classification, a large amount of data concerning fonts, and so on. And even then the result miss a certain, oh, je-ne-sais-quoi... With textension I can look at entire texts, not just the font. "Real" typographers will probably hate this tool, but I think most of the results are readable enough to embrace the added value of emotion."